澳大利亚和中国中学生使用汉语实施批评言语行为的调查分析-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

whether the subjects will choose a suitable place to conduct the speech act of criticism when they are under the influences of the social determinants such as relative power, social distance and the ranking of imposition between the speaker and the hearer, and sex and age of the hearer. The second part is in the form of Discourse Completion Task, which focuses on the communicative strategies of criticizing in Chinese. Through the quantitative study, it is found that social distance, power and ranking of imposition have no impact on the Australian subjects, and that the sex of the classmate and the age of the father have an influence upon their choice of criticizing place. The result also shows that the subjects’ choice of criticizing place is affected by the relative power which the classmates of the Chinese subjects have over them, the social distance between the Chinese subjects and their hearers, and the ranking of imposition, but the sex and the age of the hearer has no impact. Generally, most of the subjects in China and Australia prefer to criticize in private. It is discovered that most of the Australian subjects choose direct criticism while the Chinese subjects prefer indirect speech act to criticize the hearer in all the 7 situations. In addition, there are great differences in criticizing strategies between the Australian and Chinese subjects and cultural factors have an strong influence on their choices of criticism strategies. It is also found that the sentence patterns issued by the Australian subjects are mainly imperative sentences and declarative sentences, while the most frequently used sentence pattern by the Chinese subjects is declarative sentence. It is hoped that findings of the research will help supplement the study on the Chinese speech acts in TCSL, provide empirical and theoretical references to the teaching and learning of Chinese as L2, and directly improve the pragmatic abilities of L2 learners. Key words: speech act, criticism, r