汉语恭维言语行为性别差异分析

恭维语作为日常生活中高频率使用的一种言语行为,一直以来是国内外语言学家关注的重点课题之一。本文将在前人研究的基础之上,以非英语专业男女大学生为研究对象,采用问卷调查的方式,试图从"使用及接受频率、恭维及回应策略、句法和词汇结构、内容或话题选择以及社会功能"五个方面对汉语恭维言语行为使用中的性别差异做一个较为全面的分析研究,并从语用学和社会语言学多维角度探究其成因,找出某些规律性,帮助人们在跨性别文化交际中避免语用失误达到预期交际目的,并为相关语言教学工作者提供适当建议。

As a speech act used with high frequency in our daily life, complimenting has attracted a lot of linguists home and abroad, who made a lot of research on it. This paper, on the basis of conclusions drawn by these linguists, is intended to explore the gender differences in Chinese compliments in terms of use and acceptance frequency, compliment and response strategy, semantic load carrier and syntactic pattern, content or topic and social function through qualitative and quantitative analyses of data collected by means of a questionnaire of first-year male and female non-English majors. In addition, to find some laws to help readers avoid pragmatic failures and achieve successful communication, the author has probed into the factors that contribute to the differences from the perspective of pragmatics and sociolinguistics. Last but not least, some suggestions are provided for the teachers in language teaching field.