Chinese and American Request Strategy A study on the speech act behavior of the college students

摘要：

Request speech act is frequently performed in daily life. The present study examines request strategies produced by Chinese and American college students in English. 30 Chinese and 30 Americans participate in the study and they all major in management. The data are collected by means of a modified written Discourse Completion Test. The findings indicate Chinese and American college students have more similarities than differences in terms of request strategy. However, Chinese are influenced by pragmatic transfer when they choose request strategies. The study has implications to develop Chinese English learners sociopragmatic and intercultural competence, which will facilitate intercultural communication and management in the future.

作者: PENG Yuan WEI Wan-de

作者单位: School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan, P.R.China, 430070

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: International Conference on Management and Service Science(2011年第五届管理与服务科学国际会议 MASS 2011)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-4

在线出版日期: 2011-08-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）