紹介
This book investigates request strategies in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and is one of the first attempts to address cross-cultural strategies employed in the speech act of requests in two non-Western languages. The data, drawn from role-plays and naturally recorded conversations, complement each other in terms of exhaustiveness and authenticity. This study explores the similarities and differences of the request patterns that emerged in the Chinese and Korean data, and the intricate relation between request strategies and social factors (such as power and distance). The findings raise questions about the influence of methodology on data, and the applicability of so called universals to East Asian languages. They also offer new insights into generally held ideas of directness and requesting behaviours in Chinese and Korean, and the problems of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic communication.This research is suggestive for the disciplines of cross-cultural pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, contrastive linguistics, applied linguistics and discourse analysis.
目次
1. Preface, pxi-xii
2. Abbreviations, conventions and notations, pxiii-xv
3. 1. Introduction, p1-6
4. 2. Previous studies, p7-32
5. 3. Methodology, p33-56
6. 4. Individual situation comparisons, p57-116
7. 5. Comparisons of social variables, p117-178
8. 6. General discussion, p180-207
9. 7. Sequential analysis of turn-taking, p209-292
10. 8. Conclusions, p293-297
11. Appendix: Request scenarios, p299-306
12. References, p307-311
13. Glossary of technical terms, p313-316
14. Name index, p317
15. Sunject index, p319-320
