摘要
Since Sinclair and Coulthard introduced the follow-up move in 1975,it has attracted a great deal of attention.However,most of the studies focus on English while Chinese has been neglected.This article aims to analyze Chinese conversational structure and investigate the role of the follow-up move.The present study is based on twenty natural Chinese conversations and Tsui's(1994) conversational framework.As the result will show,the presence or absence of the follow-up move in Chinese conversations relies heavily on the interlocutors'gender.
Since Sinclair and Coulthard introduced the follow-up move in 1975,it has attracted a great deal of attention.However,most of the studies focus on English while Chinese has been neglected.This article aims to analyze Chinese conversational structure and investigate the role of the follow-up move.The present study is based on twenty natural Chinese conversations and Tsui's(1994) conversational framework.As the result will show,the presence or absence of the follow-up move in Chinese conversations relies heavily on the interlocutors'gender.
出处
《海外英语》
2012年第14期237-240,共4页
Overseas English
