Since Sinclair and Coulthard introduced the follow-up move in 1975,it has attracted a great deal of attention.However,most of the studies focus on English while Chinese has been neglected.This article aims to analyze ...Since Sinclair and Coulthard introduced the follow-up move in 1975,it has attracted a great deal of attention.However,most of the studies focus on English while Chinese has been neglected.This article aims to analyze Chinese conversational structure and investigate the role of the follow-up move.The present study is based on twenty natural Chinese conversations and Tsui's(1994) conversational framework.As the result will show,the presence or absence of the follow-up move in Chinese conversations relies heavily on the interlocutors'gender.展开更多
Since Brown and Gilman pioneered the concepts of power and solidarity in 1960 and because of people's continued research in them,the two terms have been fundamental to sociolinguistic theory.What are the pragmatic...Since Brown and Gilman pioneered the concepts of power and solidarity in 1960 and because of people's continued research in them,the two terms have been fundamental to sociolinguistic theory.What are the pragmatic functions of them? In order to answer the question,an analysis of power and solidarity is conducted in view of deictic terms,address terms,verb patterns,code-switching and style variation and it tries to probe into the pragmatic functions of power and solidarity on the basis of Jakobson's theory of language functions.展开更多
文摘Since Sinclair and Coulthard introduced the follow-up move in 1975,it has attracted a great deal of attention.However,most of the studies focus on English while Chinese has been neglected.This article aims to analyze Chinese conversational structure and investigate the role of the follow-up move.The present study is based on twenty natural Chinese conversations and Tsui's(1994) conversational framework.As the result will show,the presence or absence of the follow-up move in Chinese conversations relies heavily on the interlocutors'gender.
文摘Since Brown and Gilman pioneered the concepts of power and solidarity in 1960 and because of people's continued research in them,the two terms have been fundamental to sociolinguistic theory.What are the pragmatic functions of them? In order to answer the question,an analysis of power and solidarity is conducted in view of deictic terms,address terms,verb patterns,code-switching and style variation and it tries to probe into the pragmatic functions of power and solidarity on the basis of Jakobson's theory of language functions.
