开题报告终极版本.doc

湖 南 工 业 大 学 硕 士 学 位 研 究 生 开 题 报 告 选 题 名 称：外语环境下同伴异议话语研究 - 社会文化视域 学 科 专 业：外国语言学及应用语言学 研 究 方 向：应用语言学 院（系） 所：外国语学院 年 级： 2013级 研究生姓名：龙 娟 指 导 教 师 ：王晓燕 撰 写 日 期：2015.1.7 A Study of Peer Disagreement Discourse in Foreign Language Environment:A Sociocultural Perspective 1. Introduction In foreign environment, disagreement can hardly escape in peer interaction. However, few scholars have speculated the nature of disagreement from sociocultural perspective. The present paper is an empirical study which tries to the real situation of focusing on disagreement in English classroom. This chapter is the introductory part of the whole paper in which four issues will be mentioned. Research background will come first and then the research purposes and significance. The next part is the research questions as well as research methods. The last section is the organization of the thesis, which is a panorama showing the landmarks. 1.1 Research background In current years, disagreement is a hot topic which has been analyzed by linguistic scholars from other perspectives.(e.g. Meredith, 2012; Jo, 2012) In the present study, the definition of disagreement is cited from Kakava(2002), who think that disagreement is defined as ‘‘the negation of a stated or implied proposition’’. This definition, as interpreted here, includes the negation of or objection to not only factual statements, but also points of view, positions, plans and actions. This thesis intends to analyze peer disagreement from Sociocutural theory (SCT), SCT is proposed by Vygoysky, however, it has little to do with culture and society as its name indicates. This theory emphasizes that human behaviors and activities occur in the sociocultural world, therefore this sociocultural world impacts human activities and human development. Human development is not individual; instead, it is interrelated with the sociocultural world. Within the framework of Politeness Theory, disagreement has t