Code-switching between English and Chinese usually occurs in students' talk when they are involved in taking communicative language activities in college English class. This paper studies the situations in which s...Code-switching between English and Chinese usually occurs in students' talk when they are involved in taking communicative language activities in college English class. This paper studies the situations in which students are likely to use codeswitching and analyzes it from the perspective of the mental world in Verscheren's Adaptation Theory. It shows that inadequate mastery of English language, cultural differences and the improper adjustment to context may lead to students' using of codeswitching. It also shows that the use of code-switching in students' talk adapts to students' cognitive elements and emotive elements as well.展开更多
We all enjoy being together with friends,which,of course,is one of the reasons why the sitcom Friends has been so popular.However,no matter how close the friendship is,conflicts cannot be avoided.Thus knowing the form...We all enjoy being together with friends,which,of course,is one of the reasons why the sitcom Friends has been so popular.However,no matter how close the friendship is,conflicts cannot be avoided.Thus knowing the format of conflict talk is good for friends to find out the best way to abstain from speech conflicts.Taking several quarreling situations in the sitcom Friends as examples,this paper analyzes the format of conflict talk between friends from the perspective of Politeness Theory.展开更多
Based on Brown and Levinson's face theory, this paper points out that Chinese students keep silent in the English class for the sake of their face wants. As facilitators of language learning, teachers need to lear...Based on Brown and Levinson's face theory, this paper points out that Chinese students keep silent in the English class for the sake of their face wants. As facilitators of language learning, teachers need to learn some politeness strategies and employ various politeness strategies to maintain and enhance students' face to spark their motivation to participate in the interactive activities so as to develop their language control.展开更多
In the classroom interactive teaching activities, the problem posed by teachers is teacher′s utterance. Teacher talk is notonly a tool for teachers to implement teaching plans, but also determine the success or failu...In the classroom interactive teaching activities, the problem posed by teachers is teacher′s utterance. Teacher talk is notonly a tool for teachers to implement teaching plans, but also determine the success or failure of classroom teaching, so it has beenthe focus of language teaching research for many years. In the process of classroom communication, teachers′discourse cannot bewell understood, sometimes the questions raised can not induce students′timely, relevant and clear answers, leading to communica-tion failure. How to make teachers′discourse more understandable and how to successfully put forward the principles of explicit-ness, relevance and the acquisition of contextual effects of relevance theory has a good explanatory power for some phenomena ofclassroom communication in foreign language teaching. According to the basic idea of Relevance Theory, through the analysis ofteachers′discourse examples, we can find the theoretical basis for successful classroom questioning.展开更多
Packages in Chinese cross talk are the origin of cross talk humor.By using the literature investigation method,the paper find the effect of humor when create the packages and unpack the packages,which is the process t...Packages in Chinese cross talk are the origin of cross talk humor.By using the literature investigation method,the paper find the effect of humor when create the packages and unpack the packages,which is the process that audiences construct mental spaces and create mappings between mental spaces,but the detail process of mental spaces and the mappings of mental spaces is uncertain.Thus,the paper uses literature investigation and illustration as the main research methods.This paper means to make a better understanding of the humor of cross talk and can help to create more humor discourse.展开更多
Conflict talk is a common and complex linguistic phenomenon existing in life,mainly referring to verbal interaction events such as disputes,dissent,and refutation between the two parties in the conversation.This paper...Conflict talk is a common and complex linguistic phenomenon existing in life,mainly referring to verbal interaction events such as disputes,dissent,and refutation between the two parties in the conversation.This paper is based on Verschueren’s adaptation theory,combined with the representative conflict cases in the movie Zootopia,and the multiangle analysis of the expression of dialogue conflicts.And it tries to find the specific causes of conflict talks,in order to provide methods to solve or alleviate the discourse conflicts in life.展开更多
Teacher talk is of great significance in the classroom organization as well as the process of language acquisition.This paper explores the teacher talk from the angel of SLA Theories and analyzes the connection betwee...Teacher talk is of great significance in the classroom organization as well as the process of language acquisition.This paper explores the teacher talk from the angel of SLA Theories and analyzes the connection between teacher talk and SLA Theories.Thus it gives some suggestions to improve Teacher Talk in English classroom and consequently promotes students’second language acquisition.展开更多
文摘Code-switching between English and Chinese usually occurs in students' talk when they are involved in taking communicative language activities in college English class. This paper studies the situations in which students are likely to use codeswitching and analyzes it from the perspective of the mental world in Verscheren's Adaptation Theory. It shows that inadequate mastery of English language, cultural differences and the improper adjustment to context may lead to students' using of codeswitching. It also shows that the use of code-switching in students' talk adapts to students' cognitive elements and emotive elements as well.
文摘We all enjoy being together with friends,which,of course,is one of the reasons why the sitcom Friends has been so popular.However,no matter how close the friendship is,conflicts cannot be avoided.Thus knowing the format of conflict talk is good for friends to find out the best way to abstain from speech conflicts.Taking several quarreling situations in the sitcom Friends as examples,this paper analyzes the format of conflict talk between friends from the perspective of Politeness Theory.
文摘Based on Brown and Levinson's face theory, this paper points out that Chinese students keep silent in the English class for the sake of their face wants. As facilitators of language learning, teachers need to learn some politeness strategies and employ various politeness strategies to maintain and enhance students' face to spark their motivation to participate in the interactive activities so as to develop their language control.
文摘In the classroom interactive teaching activities, the problem posed by teachers is teacher′s utterance. Teacher talk is notonly a tool for teachers to implement teaching plans, but also determine the success or failure of classroom teaching, so it has beenthe focus of language teaching research for many years. In the process of classroom communication, teachers′discourse cannot bewell understood, sometimes the questions raised can not induce students′timely, relevant and clear answers, leading to communica-tion failure. How to make teachers′discourse more understandable and how to successfully put forward the principles of explicit-ness, relevance and the acquisition of contextual effects of relevance theory has a good explanatory power for some phenomena ofclassroom communication in foreign language teaching. According to the basic idea of Relevance Theory, through the analysis ofteachers′discourse examples, we can find the theoretical basis for successful classroom questioning.
文摘Packages in Chinese cross talk are the origin of cross talk humor.By using the literature investigation method,the paper find the effect of humor when create the packages and unpack the packages,which is the process that audiences construct mental spaces and create mappings between mental spaces,but the detail process of mental spaces and the mappings of mental spaces is uncertain.Thus,the paper uses literature investigation and illustration as the main research methods.This paper means to make a better understanding of the humor of cross talk and can help to create more humor discourse.
文摘Conflict talk is a common and complex linguistic phenomenon existing in life,mainly referring to verbal interaction events such as disputes,dissent,and refutation between the two parties in the conversation.This paper is based on Verschueren’s adaptation theory,combined with the representative conflict cases in the movie Zootopia,and the multiangle analysis of the expression of dialogue conflicts.And it tries to find the specific causes of conflict talks,in order to provide methods to solve or alleviate the discourse conflicts in life.
文摘Teacher talk is of great significance in the classroom organization as well as the process of language acquisition.This paper explores the teacher talk from the angel of SLA Theories and analyzes the connection between teacher talk and SLA Theories.Thus it gives some suggestions to improve Teacher Talk in English classroom and consequently promotes students’second language acquisition.
