国际商务谈判口译话语分析-外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

Discourse Analysis of Interpreting in International Business Negotiation: A Case Study from the Cognitive Perspective of Piaget’s Schema Theory Postgraduate: Liu Qi Grade: 2007 Orientation: Linguistics Major Field of Study: Foreign Linguistics Applied Linguistics Supervisor: Associate Professor. Luo Yaoguang Abstract in English As a crucial component in international commercial activities, international business negotiation is a consultation between different business subjects to fulfill requirements and achieve goals. Thus, the importance of negotiation interpreting has been more obvious owing to the frequent business exchanges. Although interpretation has been attached adequate attention at home and abroad, the research methodology is quite formal. Deriving from cognitive psychology, Schema is the organizational form about external knowledge and the basis of awareness and understanding toward outside objects in human mind. In recent years, many extensive and thorough researches on foreign language teaching have been carried out from the angle of psychological schemata, but it is so rare that people apply it to the interpreting research in specific international business negotiation. This paper gains an insight into recent researches at home and abroad from the research field, focus, methodology, team and theoretical framework these five aspects, and has a minute literature review about the development of schema theory, all of which inspire the author to come up with the reflection to apply the schema theory to discourse analysis of interpreting in specific international business negotiation. Through a particular research about Piaget’s schema theory that consists of assimilation, accommodation and equilibration three aspects, as well as the comparison between Piaget’s schema theory and modern schema theory, the author has probed into the feasibility of Piaget’s schema theory as a new approach in analyzing the interpreting discourses in international business nego