中英日常对话中寒暄语的对比研究_英语论文

The Comparison of Phatic Communion in Daily Conversation Between English and Chinese

摘要

日常生活中，会话非常重要。为了维持人际关系，我们甚至会用一些毫无实际意义的话语，即寒暄语。先前的研究多从社会语言学、功能语言学的角度分析寒暄语，很少从语用学层次分析。本论文根据语用学的相关理论—合作原作与礼貌原则—分析寒暄语，并且结合实例，介绍在中美两种文化下寒暄语的不同。研究发现虽然它们在各自的语言中所执行的功能相同，但在形式与内容上都有差异。这可归因为中美不同的文化体系：前者为高语境文化，而后者为低语境文化。笔者从社会价值和心理两方面阐述不同种类寒暄语产生的原因，进一步揭示了文化在会话中的重要作用。

关键词：寒暄语  礼貌原则  差异  文化

Abstract

In our daily life, conversation is very important. We all use such small, seemingly meaningless expression—phatic communion to maintain relations. Many studies on phatic communion were largely analyzed from the perspective of social linguistics, functional linguistics and so on. But less has been done from the perspective of pragmatics. This thesis tries to analyze phatic communion from the theories of pragmatics, Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle, and introduces the differences of phatic communion under the American and Chinese cultures combining with daily examples. It finds that there are the same in functions and differences in forms and contents. It can owe to the difference of the cultural systems between America and China, the former belongs to low-context culture, and the latter belongs to high-context culture. It specifically explains why people have different phatic communions from the aspects of social value and psychology, to notice that culture plays an important role in people’s conversations. 

Keywords: Phatic Communion  Politeness Principle  Differences  Culture

Contents

Introduction.1

ChapterⅠIntroduction to Phatic Communion 2

1.1 Definition of Phatic Communion 2

1.2 Function of Phatic Communion 3

ChapterⅡ Phatic Communion in Use 7

2.1 Theories Basis.7

2.2 Between People Familiar to Each Other 10

2.3 Between People Known to Each Other.11

2.4 Between People Strange to Each Other13

Chapter Ⅲ Cultural Differences of Phatic Communion.18

3.1 Social Value .19

3.2 Psychology .20

Conclusion 22

References. .23

Acknowledgements 24