听话者话语角色的功能研究.pdfVIP

Abstract The hearer,together with the speaker,plays an important role in discourse. It is relatively independent and has distinct characteristics. Compared with the speaker, the hearer is endowed with more functions. But relevant research is weak as the hearer is generally thought to be subject the speaker. In view of this situation, this thesis borrows ideas from previous research achievements of discourse roles, establishes a new classification standard and defines the hearer’s role anew. The hearer is classified into three categories: addressee, auditor and overhearer. Then the thesis analyzes the functions these three categories show in the unmarked hearing behavior and the marked hearing behavior. In the end, it makes some suggestions on phatic strategies the hearer and the speaker, especially the hearer, should adopt. The thesis consists of 6 chapters: Chapter one, Introduction. This chapter defines the hearer on the basis of previous relevant theories. The hearer is the one who receives the discourse information the speaker gives out in communications. He has the right and duty to make response to the received information. Additionally, this chapter explains the theoretical background, research value, research approaches and corpus sources, etc. Chapter two, Categories of Hearer’s Role. This chapter brings ideas from Saussure’s Cycle Theory and other linguists’ analyses of hearer’s right and duty to make response. Based on the right and duty to make response, a new classification standard is established through deductive method: the response purview to discourse information. Thus the hearer can be classified into three categories: addressee (who has the right and duty to make response, that is, he must make response), auditor (who has the right but does not ha