理工院校英语学习者学术不赞同言语行为的研究
关键词 不赞同言语行为 面子威胁 学术语境 语用能力
毕业论文外文摘要
Title A Study on EFL Learners’ Academic Disagreement in Universities of Science and Technology—— A Case Study of Students from NJUST
Abstract
Disagreement is a face-threat act that expresses different or opposing views, which speakers try to avoid or mitigate by all means. This paper investigates strategies Chinese EFL learners of English major use to express academic disagreement under the framework of Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory and Speech Act Theory. According to Rees-Miller’s classification of disagreement, the research is aimed to analyze disagreement strategies and relevant factors in the 78 disagreement act identified from class discussions and office seminars of post-graduate students of English major from Nanjing University of Science and Technology. It is found that EFL learners tend to use softened strategy most, especially the negative politeness strategy, and aggravated strategy least, which is probably caused by traditional culture, social distance, relative power and speaking habit. The disagreement strategies students choose, to some extent, reflect their foreign language pragmatic competence in academic context.
Keywords disagreement face threat academic context pragmatic competence
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Research Background 1
1.2 Research Object 1
1.3 Layout of the Thesis 2
2 Literature Review 2
2.1 Definition of Disagreement 2
2.2 Studies on Disagreement and Politeness 3
2.3 Studies on EFL Learners' Pragmatic Competence 4
2.4 Achievements and Shortcomings 5
3 Theoretical Framework 5
3.1 Austin's Speech Act Theory 5
3.2 Brown & Levinson's Politeness Theory 6
3.3 Summary 8
4 Methodology 8
4.1 Research Questions 8
4.2 Data Collection 9
4.3 Coding Scheme 9
4.4 Data Analysis 10
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