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1、AnInterlanguagePragmaticsStudyofRequest 【Abstract】BasedontheanalysisofletterswrittenbysomeChinesecollegeEnglishlearnersandAmericannativespeakers,thispaperfirstverifiedthatChinesecollegeEnglishlearnersoftencommitpragmaticfailuresconcerningrequestinletters.Then,afterdiscussio
2、nofpragmalinguisticandsociopragmaticfailuresfoundinthelettersofChinesecollegeEnglishlearnersindetail,thispaperfurtherprovidedsomeimplicationsfortheEFLlearningandteaching. 【Keywords】InterlanguagepragmaticsRequestPragmaticfailurePragmaticcompetence 【中图分类号】G642【文献标识码】A【文章编号】1
3、674-4810(2013)05-0110-01 ⅠTheempiricalstudy ThehypothesisinthispaperistofindwhetherpragmaticfailuresoftenoccurinChinesecollegeEnglishlearners’writinginadditiontotheirexististenceinspokendiscourse.TheprocedureoftheinvestigationisfollowedbyXu(2001). 1.Datacollection Eighty
4、-sevenquestionnairesfortheChinesestudentsare4receivedwheninvaliddata(thoseletterswhichcannotbefinishedorrecognized)areexcluded.Beforewritingtheletters,theteacherexplainsthesesixsituationsinChineseinordertomakestudentclearlyunderstandtheirtask.Enoughtimewillbeallowedinorderto
5、letstudentsfinishthoseletters. TwentyquestionnairesfortheAmericanstudentsarereceivedasthedataforthisresearch. 2.Dataanalysisanddiscussion Justliketheoralexpression,theinvestigationshowsthatpragmaticfailuresalsooccurwhenChineseEnglishlearnersexpresstherequestsinthewrittenf
6、orm.TheconceptofpragmaticfailureoriginatesformThomas(1983).Shecommentsthatthepragmaticfailurehasoccurredonanyoccasion“onwhichH(thehearer)perceivestheforcesofS(thespeaker’s)utterancesasotherthanSintendedheorsheperceiveit.”(ibid:94).Accordingtohim,pragmaticfailureisclassifiedi
7、ntotwocategories:pragmalinguisticfailureandsociopragmaticfailure.Theformerone“occurswhenthepragmaticforcemappedbyspeakerontoagivenutteranceissystematicallydifferentfromtheforcemostfrequentlyassignedtoitbynativespeakersofthetargetlanguage”(ibid:99).Andthelatterone“stemsfromcr
8、oss-culturallydifferentperce-ptionsofwhatconstitutesappropriatelinguistic4b
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