多重视角下英语间接礼貌言语的本质动机分析

Essential Motives of English Indirect Polite Utterances from Multiple Perspectives

在日常言语交际中,当人们要表达自己的情感或者意愿时,某一种表达法(初始表达法)会在第一时间浮现于脑海中。但是出于种种原因,人们常使用有别于这一表达法的间接礼貌言语。后者与前者在命题内容上相差无几,但是在表现形式上却可能迥然不同。互动参与者付出更多的努力来构建并表达这一经过人际修辞包装过的言语的动机,成为亟待探究的问题。从四种语用学理论的角度对同一间接礼貌言语进行考察与分析,我们可以知晓隐藏在这一言语背后的本质动机。

In daily verbal communication, a certain expression （an initial expression） would rise in the mind in the first place when we want to express our feelings and intentions. But for a variety of reasons, we, in fact, choose an indirect polite utterance to express ourselves. The proposition of the later expression is almost the same with the former one, but differs in its representation. Why we should make more efforts to construct and express this kind of utterances embellished by interpersonal rhetoric becomes an issue needed to be explored. Based on the observation and analysis of the same utterance from the perspectives of four pragmatic theories, we can understand the speaker＇s essential motives behind the indirect utterance.