A Contrastive Pragmatic Study of Politeness Strategies in Disagreement between Native Speakers of English and Chinese EFL Learners  

英语本族语者和中国英语学习者“不同意”礼貌策略的跨文化语用对比研究(英文)

作　　者：褚艳[1] 

机构地区：[1]宁波工程学院外国语学院

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》2016年第2期231-245,247,248,共17页中国应用语言学（英文）

基　　金：supported by a scholarship from China Scholarship Council;Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education~~

摘　　要：This paper attempts to make a contrastive cross-cultural study of a special speech act-- ＂disagreement.＂ Participants are 35 American undergraduates and 42 Chinese undergraduates respectively with the data eliciting technique--DCT （discourse completion test）. Findings show that Chinese undergraduates tend to use different politeness strategies according to different social distance and social power while American undergraduates prefer to use positive politeness strategy most followed by negative politeness strategy, regardless of social distance and social power. The results of the study reveal cultural differences between the U.S. and China that lead to the distribution of diverse politeness strategies and also offer insights into what Chinese EFL learners are struggling with during their development of interlanguage pragmatic competence.本研究对一种特殊的言语行为"不同意"进行了跨文化语用对比研究。受试为35位美国本科生和42位中国本科生,研究方法为数据诱导法—DCT(话语完型测试)。研究结果表明中国本科生根据社会距离和社会权力的不同采用不同的礼貌策略而美国本科生不管社会距离大小或社会地位高低,使用频率最高的是积极礼貌策略,其次是消极礼貌策略。研究结果揭示了中美文化差异是导致不同礼貌策略分布的原因,此外,研究结果对中国英语学习者的语际语语用能力发展有一定启示作用。

关 键 词：DISAGREEMENT politeness strategies social distance social power 

分 类 号：H319[语言文字—英语]