Investigating Pragmatics of Complaint Speech Acts in English and Chinese

• 作者: Sangcheol Lee 张颖卉
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: CHINESE ENGLISH COMPLAINT SPEECH ACT
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（22）
• 页码范围: 302-303
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: H030

摘要

The speech act of complaint is an important research subject of pragmatics,which is worthy of research among speech acts.With the development of research into speech acts,some scholars have performed investigations of complaints,but they have done little work on Chinese language complaints.Therefore,it is necessary to make a further study on complaint as a speech act in Chinese.This thesis is based on speech act theory and the politeness principle as an empirical study of the speech act of com plaint in Chinese.It aims to provide a more complete and comprehensive result of participant production of the speech act of complaint.