英语非本族语者间商务交际适应的语用研究.docVIP

　　英语非本族语者间商务交际适应的语用研究----英语范文论文 --CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction As the ania around the ber of people can speak English to some level of petence. Specifically, there is such a shift in the use of English that non-native speakers (NNSs), those unication have e to outnumber its native speakers (NSs) during the last tates that by 2060 NNSs ber NSs by 50%. This has prompted non-native/non-native (NN/NN) English interactions‘ turning into a major topical field of research. ber of multinationals making English their corporate official language, NNSs need a full understanding of the municative strategies used in NN/NN interactions if they ost, the munication acmodation. For a long time NNSs have been ―belittled‖ as imitators of NSs (Flege, Bohn, and Jang, 1997). Hoent of an interactional approach ore on successful munication different backgrounds through various municative strategies. Among these strategies an important one is munication acmodation. By acmodative strategies, people change their municative behavior to their interlocutors. Previous studies, unication acmodation but ation strategies, or more narro focused on NN/NN acmodation in business interactions. Thereby, the present study odative strategies utilized in the specific context—NN/NN businessinteractions. ........................ 1.2 Rationale of the present study This study, from a pragmatic perspective, is conducted to sort out the nbsp --;acmodative strategies employed by NNSs in business munication. On this basis, the paper intends to figure out hoajor reasons: First, international business practice calls for such research. For one thing, NN/NN interactions are playing increasingly important part in the international business ore non-English businessmen are doing business unicative those used by native speakers. For another, acmodation skills are one of the important skills in successful international business interactions (Gerritsen and Nickerson, 2009; Kankaanranta and Louhiala-Salminen, 20