言语打断中的权势因素分析

A Study of Power Differences in Interruption

权势是影响打断行为的重要因素。本文以录音资料为依据,在明确打断的内涵和类型的基础上,对调查资料进行定量分析,以期通过打断行为的变化与差异揭示在报告后自由讨论的语境中存在的权势因素的作用。结果表明,在自由讨论中的权势包括依赖权势和地位权势两类,这两类权势均会对打断行为产生影响,高权势者体现为打断行为的主导者与话题变换的控制者。而当这两种权势同时存在时,地位权势对打断行为的影响更显著。

APower is an important factor that exercises a great influence on interruption. Based on a taped corpus, this paper first clears the connotation and types of the interruption, then makes a quantitative analysis of the dataset in order to show that power differentials be tween participants are revealed by their behaviors of interruption in group discussions. The results show that, in the context of free discussion after report, there are two types of pow- er. one is a more static form of power based on status differences, and the other is a more situational form of power arising from dependence. Both of them affect the behaviors of in- terruption. People who have a higher status in power are embodied as the initiator of inter- ruption and the controller of topic shift. When the two kinds of power coexist, the power based on status differences will exert more influence on interruption.