【作者】 赵国芳；

【导师】 袁芳；

【作者基本信息】 内蒙古大学 ， 外国语言学及应用语言学， 2010， 硕士

【摘要】 近年来语言研究者对礼貌问题给予了极大的重视。在众多的礼貌理论中,布朗和列文森1978年提出的面子理论最具影响力。他们把“面子”定义为每个理性的成年社会成员意欲为自己争取的公共的自我形象。如果说话人的言语行为本质上威胁到听话人的面子,就是一种FTA (face-threatening act),即面子威胁行为。当不可避免要使用FTA时,说话人需要对言语进行缓和调控,以减轻对听话人的冒犯,进而向对方表示礼貌。在电视访谈节目中,为了达到一定的交际目的,缓和FTA是主持人及被访者常用的语用策略。尽管如此,这一语言现象却几乎没有得到专门研究。并且,前人关于礼貌的理论研究或多或少得存在一定得不足之处,对FTA现象也不能完全做出令人满意的诠释。Vershueren在《语用学新解》中提出的语言顺应论(theAdaptation Theory)独辟蹊径,将语言使用过程中的认知、社会和文化因素融为一体,因而对语言选择(包括语言形式的选择和策略的选择)具有强大的解释力。鉴此,本论文拟以Vershueren的语言顺应论为理论框架,对电视访谈节目中关于FTA的语用策略进行较为全面的纵观分析。在顺应论的理论框架下,本论文采用定性方法对口头语料进行了分析。这些语料主要来自电视访谈节目中,其可信度得到了极大的保证。在顺应论的基础上,根据所收集语料为前提,通过解决如下两个待研究问题而达到了本研究的目的：1)电视访谈节目中选择FTA的缓和策略的机制和动机是什么?2)FTA的语用策略在电视访谈节目中是怎么具体实现的?就第一个问题,研究发现,电视访谈节目中FTA的缓和策略的机制和动机受到了访谈语言选择的固有要求的限制,即主持人／被访者在进行语言选择时,应极有意识地通过各种交际语境因素进行动态顺应。这些语境因素包括语言使用者、心理世界、社交世界、以及物理世界。需要指出的是,在实际的交际中,上述因素往往相互交织相互影响,而不是独立存在。对第二个问题的解答实质上就是对电视访谈节目中FTA的语用策略进一步的子策略应用分析。本研究对缓和策略进行了详细的子策略分析,从而为电视访谈节目中说话人选择礼貌话语呈现了可能的语言表达方式,并在一定程度上为更好地理解电视访谈节目话语意图提供了理论依据和实际帮助。更多还原

【Abstract】 Politeness has proved to be a universal topic for language researchers in recent years. Among abundant politeness theories, the Face Theory put forward by Brown and Levison (1978) stands out as the most influential. They define "face" as the public self-image that all rational adult members in society possess. They argue that if a demand or an intrusion needs to be made on another person’s public self-image or autonomy, it is a potential face-threatening act (FTA). When faced with the problem of performing an FTA, speakers are supposed to perform it with redressive action to lessen the degree of offence to the hearer, thus achieving politeness.In TV talk shows, interviewers/interviewees do perform mitigated FTAs to achieve communicative goals. However, little work has been done to account for such a phenomenon. Besides, the previous theories of politeness more or less fail to make a satisfactory explanation of FTAs. From a rather new perspective, Verschueren’s Adaptation Theory (AT) integrates cognitive, social and cultural elements into investigation, so it is invested with a strong explanatory power to illuminate linguistic choice not only linguistically but also strategically. This thesis aims to make a relatively comprehensive investigation on pragmatic strategies concerning mitigated FTAs in TV talk show discourses with the AT as the theoretical framework.In the light of the AT, this study, methodologically speaking, relies on the qualitative analysis of the data in oral forms, which are mainly accessed through the recording and transcriptions of authoritative TV talk shows. On the base of AT and on the premise of collected data, the present study has achieved some findings through answering the two questions:(1) What are the mechanisms and motivations behind the choice of mitigation strategies concerning FTAs in TV talk show? (2) How are pragmatic strategies concerning FTAs realized in concrete TV talk shows?As to the first question, it is found that the mechanisms and motivations behind the choice of mitigation strategies concerning FTAs in TV talk shows lie in the innate demand of interviewers’or interviewees’linguistic choice--------making for dynamic adaptation to various communicative contextual correlates with high consciousness. Such correlates involve the roles of language users, the mental world, the social world, and the physical world, which are always interwoven in actual interaction instead of being independent from one another.As far as the second question is concerned, a generalization on the sub-strategies has been made on the mitigation strategy in TV talk shows. In such a case, the speaker is provided with possible linguistic expressions to produce polite utterances strategically. Meanwhile it also facilitates a better understanding of interviewers’/interviewees’ intension behind the choice of a specific strategy.更多还原