中国女性恭维语回应中的文化变异.pdf

摘 要 本文所要研究的是在中国文化背景下女性对于显性恭维语（外貌， 所属物）的回应策略，从而证明人们日常生活中的言语行为准则受社会 文化背景的影响。 在对恭维语及其回应的共性认识之外，本研究进一步探究：1）中 国女性对恭维语的回应和先前Grice，Searle 提出的理论有何不同；2 ） 导致这些不同的原因是什么；3 ）本研究在跨文化交际领域的意义有哪 些。 本研究通过对中国女性对恭维语回应的调查测试来研究不同的文 化变量（年龄，教育背景，地域）对恭维这一特殊的言语行为的影响。 为保证研究的真实性和可靠性，作者在图书馆进行资料查阅，实地观察 录音，采集数据并用统计技术对数据进行分析。 研究发现，中国女性面对对方给出的显性恭维语时，她们的回应的 确符合语用原则，除此之外也证明了言语行为受相应的文化影响这一原 则。 关键词：言语行为，文化变异，女性恭维语回应， 中国背景 ABSTRACT The dissertation is to study women ’s responses to explicit compliments in Chinese milieu, in order to prove that the principles of our daily speech act are subject to cultural/social variation. Besides some commonality in compliments and responses, the present study may get some insight about: 1) How do Chinese women ’s responses to compliment differ from those expounded by Grice, Searle, etc. ？ 2) What are underlying causes that lead these differences? 3) What implication and significance can be uncovered in terms of intercultural communication? By examining people’s speech act of compliments and responses in their respective cultural backgrounds, the research will specifically revolve around investigation of such speech act in Chinese culture, which reveals speaker ’s cultural norms in communication. The subjects in the research are classified into various groups (age, education, and region) to one explicit compliment (appearance or possession) in order to transcribe their responses and analyze the data collected. To guarantee the factuality and reliability, the research proceeded with library research, field observation and data collection (recorded speech performance and transcription in radio and television). These authentic evidence and data are closely examined and analyzed for our purpose. It is discovered that faced with explicit compliment such as appearance and property,