英语请求语的语用发展研究

The study on the pragmatic development of English request

通过话语填充测试法,收集了三组英语水平不同的学生在不同场景中的请求言语行为。数据分析得出:请求言语行为的使用能力随着英语水平的增加有所提高,并遵循一定的发展规律。受试者常规性间接请求的使用随着英语水平的提高有轻微的提高而直接请求的使用随着英语水平的提高有所下降。不同于以往的请求言语行为的语用发展研究,不同英语水平使用者的请求言语行为并不随请求者与被请求者不同的社会地位和请求行为的难易程度呈现规律性的变化。

The data of English requests in different situation was collected among students of three different English levels by using Discourse Completion Tests. The results show that the pragmatic ability of the use of English requests improves with the improvement of English levels:the use of conventionally requests slightly increased while the direct requests decreased. Unlike the previous research on the pragmatic development, those students are not sensitive to the situational variation.