用“礼貌原则”理论探讨中日话题选择的问题——以燕山大学日语专业为例

A Study of Topic Selection in Chinese and Japanese Conversation Based on Politeness Principle:Take the Students majoring in Japanese at Yanshan University as the Example

以燕山大学日语专业四年级学生为研究对象,就同届同一性别大学生分别使用日语和汉语在初次见面谈话中所选话题问题进行了考察。从整体上看,即使会话时使用的语言不同但是所选的话题项目大体相同。使用日语会话时10组中有4组谈到恋爱方面的话题,而使用汉语会话时没有出现相关话题。针对这一现象,结合对学生的追踪调查,运用Brown&Levinson(1987)礼貌原则进行分析说明。

The participants of this study are the fourth year students from Yanshan University. We focus on the topic selection of students in the same grade with the same gender who meet the first time in their respe,~tive Japanese and Chinese conversation. Overall, students have chosen similar topics in their Japanese and Chinese conversation. Nevertheless, four out of ten groups of them have mentioned love issues in their Japanese conversation. In their Chinese conversation, however, the same love topic does not appear. Based on this finding and the follow-up research, we analyze this phenomenon from the theoretical framework of Brown ＆ Leviuson＇s （1987） Politeness Principle.