Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations & Symbols……………………………………………………………Ⅱ
Tables & Figures……………………………………………………………… III
序一…………………………………………………………………………………………………….VI
序二…………………………………………………………………………VII
Contents ………………………………………………………VIII
前言…………………………………………………………………………XIII
Chapter 1 Introduction ……………………………………… 1
1.1 Orientation of the Title……………… 2
1.2 Motivations of the Present Study ……………………… 4
1.3 The ConCept and Criteria of Requests …………………6
1.4 Intonation of Speech Acts ……………………………9
1.5 The Nature of the Present Study …………………………11
1.6 Propositional Opacity of Requests …………………………………15
1.7 Methods 16
1.8 The Aims and Hypotheses of the Present Study 17
1.9 Layout and Scope of the Present Study 19
1.10 Summary 20
Chapter 2 Theoretical Background to the Contrastive Study of Requests in
English and Chinese 21
2.1 Introduction 22
2.2 Pragmatics: Language Use in Contexts 22
2.3 Cross-cultural Pragmatics 24
2.4 Sociopragmatics 29
2.5 Interlanguage Pragmatics 31
2.6 Metapragmatics 33
2.7 Interpersonal Relationship Studies 36
2.8 Linguistic Strategies 38
2.9 Speech Act Theories 40
2.10 Direct and Indirect Speech Acts 46
2.11 Direct & Indirect Speech Acts and Politeness 50
2.12 Empirically-based Cognitive Model of Speech Acts 52
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