An Analysis of Chinese Address Terms From the Perspective of Speech Act Theory

Address terms are an important resource for conveying relationships.In daily interactions,the use of address terms is unavoidable.Therefore,the choose of address terms is particularly critical to make communicate smoothly with people.Previous scholars have studied address terms from a wide range of perspectives.But there is not much research on Chinese address terms based on speech act theory,which is put forward by John Langshaw Austin.By observing communicative conversations,several findings have been emerged from the analysis.They are professional title,affectionate address terms,and common address terms.These findings express the existential significance of address terms,which are the premise for people to maximize their illocutionary act when communicating.Correct understanding and grasp of the use of address terms is conductive to unfolding the communicative dialogue more smoothly.

A Study on the Application of Indirect Speech Act Theory in CET-6 Listening

In recent years,the CET-6(College English Test,Band 6)has become an important standard to measure the English language ability of Chinese college students,and listening is a challenging task for many students.The application of indirect speech act theory in CET-6 listening is seldom studied.Therefore,it is crucial to study on it.Based on the two observation points of indirect speech act theory in CET-6 listening,this study analyzes the specific embodiment of conventional indirect speech acts and non-conventional indirect speech acts in listening,and discusses the effective teaching methods of CET-6 listening.

Coherence inThe Star Child from Speech Act Metonymic Perspective

Based on Thornburg and Panther's theory of speech act metonymy,the paper analyzes the speech act in Wilde's fairy tale——"The Star Child".It proposes any component in the action scenario can stand for the whole scenario,and it helps save energy both for encoding and decoding during communication,and understand the coherence in a discourse.

Speech Act of Refusal-A Proposal from an Interlanguage Pragmatic Perspective

This paper is to present a typology of refusal strategies which may be employed in the analysis of refusal performance from a discourse approach.Some previous research carried out is reviewed in order to classify non-native speakers' production of this speech act.Then,the suggested taxonomy will be described in a systematized way from an interlanguage pragmatic perspective and within a conversational analysis framework.Finally,it is emphasized that effective communicative competence plays an important role in the production of this face-threatening speech act of refusing.

Subtitle Translation of Puns in English Sitcoms from the Perspective of Speech Act Theory——A Case Study of Mind Your Language

Puns always play a vital role in sitcoms in order to create humor or ironies.Sometimes good translations of puns can decide whether target language audiences are able to obtain the equal understandings and reactions of the sitcoms as source language audiences get.Nevertheless,it is not easy for many translators to render faithfully and smoothly some English puns into Chinese.Therefore,this paper will analyze the subtitle translation of puns in the British sitcom Mind Your Language from the perspective of Speech Act Theory so as to find out some useful and helpful strategies for translation of puns in subtitling.

A Review of Indirect Speech Acts in Speech Act Theory

The theory of indirect speech acts proposed by John Searle is a problematic issue in speech act theory. The theory is subject to various criticisms.This essay reviews various arguments and the significant problems with reference to the indirect speech acts. The review includes some important concepts of speech act theory which are related to indirect speech acts; inference theory and idiom theory which underline indirect speech acts and their major problems in accounting for indirect speech acts.

A Brief Account of Vague Language in Advertising Based on Speech Act Theory

In the modern world, advertising plays an important role in commercial field and permeates in all aspects of our daily life. While due to the utilitarian essen ce of advertising, audience may have resistance or This thesis objects at vague language examples in advertisements, use Austin and Searle ' s speech act theory as anal yzing tool to make classification, comparation and analysis of the materials.

A review of speech Acts

Pragmatics is a relatively new subject compared with other linguistic studies.In this paper,we will review the definition of pragmatics and its scope.Then a detailed review of speech acts will be shown in the second part of the paper.It is mainly about many aspects of speech acts,such as its definition,classification,felicity conditions and so on.The last part of the paper is the prospects of application of pragmatics.

Celebrities Acting up: A Speech Act Analysis in Tweets of Famous People

Twitter has become very popular among celebrities. It is the main platform used by them to publish press releases and, especially, to reach out to their fans. Given the pervasiveness of celebrities on the site, people with related interests may be especially likely to start using the service due to the perception of direct access to a famous person. As for the celebrities, it is a way of being close to the public and giving them an insight in to the life of a celebrity. Although most celebrity Twitter accounts are only used for promotion purposes, many celebrities use their personal accounts for the purpose of communicating with their fans, friends and other celebrities. These celebrities tweet personal photos and share their inner thoughts for various reasons and to different audiences. Thus in this study I ask: What are celebrity speech patterns on Twitter? Are they talking mostly to fans, and if not, who are they talking to? How are they talking to these different audiences? I address these questions by analyzing the tweets publicly available on four active celebrities’ Twitter timelines. The findings support that these celebrities indeed address different audiences on Twitter, including fans, friends, family and other celebrities. The findings further reveal that celebrities tend to communicate using different speech acts when talking to these different audiences. In light of this evidence, I attempt to highlight patterns that may be relevant with regards to the celebrities’ gender.

The Necessity of Teaching Pragmatic Skills and Speech Acts in L2 Classroom

The current article mainly focuses on identifying pragmatic skills and speech acts,along with illustrating pragmatic failures in sec ond language learners.On the other hand,a brief discussion of the necessity of teaching pragmatic skills and speech acts is provided.

Cross-cultural Pragmatic Analysis on Speech Act

The theory of speech acts tells us that when words are uttered,they perform three different kinds of speech acts.But cross-cultural communication raises a question that the same locutionary acts may perform different illocutionary acts and perlocutionary acts,and in order to achieve the same illocutionary acts and perlocutionary acts,people with different native languages may employ different locutionary acts to avoid the pragmatic failure.This paper aims to illustrate the differences on greeting,requesting,and rejecting between Chinese and Americans,focus on the cultural factors in language and cross-cultural communication,and using the fundamental cross-cultural theories to analyze the distinctions,such as Austin’s Speech Act Theory,Brown and Levinson Face Theory,Edward T Hall’s High-Context and Low-Context Communication,and Hofestede’s Value Dimensions.Finally,it tells the English learners to focus on the cultural difference in the cross-cultural communication to achieve the successful communication.

斯金纳Verbal Behavior与奥斯汀Speech Act的解读与翻译

Verbal behavior和Speech act分别是斯金纳在《言语行为》和奥斯汀在《如何以言行事》中提出的关键术语。二者的提出都具有开创性贡献:verbal behavior的提出开了言语行为本体研究的先河;speech act的提出开了以言行事研究的先河。然而,学界对其开创性贡献存在极大异议,更有不少学者未基于其学术背景、词源及词典义将二者不加甄别地同译为"言语行为",造成对原著的严重误读。通过追溯这两个术语产生的学术背景、词源及词典义对其进行解读以及译名评价,认为verbal behavior可以保留"言语行为"这一译名,speech act应译成"言语举动"。

Speech Act Theory And Its Influence in the Teaching of English in China

Researches done in the field of speech act theory have thrown light on the development and formation of communicative competence in the learning and teaching of foreign languages. As foreign language teachers, we can draw some revelations from the theory. It seems to us that we are obliged to use the theory to guide our teaching though it is not without its drawbacks.

The New Findings Made in Speech Act Theory

Through carefully studying the theory of speech acts and the literature concerning it,the author made some new findings which reflects in three aspects:the similarities and differences in Chinese and English in expressing the same speech act,the relations between different types of speech acts and the correspondence between sentence sets and sets of speech acts.

On Indirect Speech Acts

Indirect speech act theory is a part of pragmatics. In indirect speech acts the speaker often says one thing to mean something else. It is essential for the learners of language to know not only literal meaning of a sentence, but also its illocutionary act. So people can efficiently communicate with each other.This paper uses some examples to illustrate some functions and usage of indirect speech acts.

＂I＇m here to discuss my final grade!＂ A study of the speech act of complaint by Malaysian ESL learners

The present study investigates the preferred strategies of the speech act of complaint by Malaysian ESL learners. The subjects were selected from Malaysian university students majoring in English at University Sains Malaysia. Data were collected through an open-ended questionnaire in the form of a discourse completion task and a semi-structured interview. The responses were analyzed based on Rinnert and Nogami＇s （2006） taxonomy of the speech act of complaint to examine the main components of complaint, the level of directness and the degree of mitigation. It is anticipated that the findings will be able to provide valuable insights into teaching and learning English in non-native settings.

On the Speech Act of Suggestion and Politeness

This study adopts both a qualitative approach and a quantitative approach to collect data from altogether 100 university students for a descriptive study on the realization of suggestions in Chinese context from a pragmatic perspective based on the theoretical framework of politeness.The syntactic patterns and politeness strategies of suggestions are under careful examination with consideration of effects of social factors including the degree of imposition,social distance and relative power.The study reveals that more Chinese are willing to make suggestions,especially direct ones,which reflects the politeness notion of attitudinal warmth in Chinese culture.Statement is the most frequently used sentence type,followed by imperative while interrogative is the least.Seven specific politeness strategies have been employed,with showing concern for the hearer as the first choice.And in determining the appropriateness of syntactic patterns and specific strategies,such social variables as the degree of embarrassment,relative power and social distance function together to exert great influence.