中国非英语专业研究生直接抱怨语语用能力发展研究

Pragmatic Competence Development: Complaining Speech Act by Chinese Non-English-major Graduates

以往直接抱怨言语行为的研究聚焦于二语学习者中介语与母语或目的语的比较,鲜有针对学习者语用能力发展的研究。本研究以不同英语水平的非英语专业研究生和汉语本族语者的书面语篇补全任务(WDCT)为语料,结合回顾性访谈,考察不同水平英语学习者抱怨语语用能力发展的差异。语料分析涵盖三个维度:直接程度、附加语和内部修饰语(包括升级语和降级语)。结果表明,随着学习者语言水平的提高(1)抱怨的直接程度增加,(2)附加语数量随之增加,(3)升级语的使用频率随之增加,但大部分降级语使用频率减少。本研究对二语语用教学与习得有一定的启示作用。

Previous studies of direct complaints have focused on the comparison between interlanguage and mother tongue or between interlanguage and target language.Fewstudies have examined the pragmatic competence development of language learners.The present study investigated the development of Chinese English learners’direct complaining pragmatic competence,with the data elicited from a Written Discourse Completion Task(WDCT),questionnaire and a retrospective interview.The complaining samples elicited were analyzed in terms of directness levels,adjuncts to head act,and internal modifiers(including upgraders and dow ngraders).The results show that the increased proficiency(1)facilitated the learners’directness levels,with more'explicit complaint'and fewer'immediate threat';(2)resulted in more adjuncts to head act;and(3)increased upgraders,but decreased occurrences of most dow ngraders.The study may offer some implications on second language pragmatic teaching,learning and acquisition.