Interlanguage requests in institutional e-mail discourse
Interlanguage requests in institutional e-mail discourse
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机构电子邮件对话中的中介语请求
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2012
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P. Pan
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本文报道了在香港进行的一项研究，调查了15名美国英语系学生和15名中国英语学习者在向教授发出电子邮件请求时的语用语言选择和社交语用判断。研究发现，所有的学生在提出这样的要求时都倾向于间接。尽管克莱斯在实现特定的间接策略方面发展了相当强大的语用语言控制，但他们在使用某些句法手段作为降级手段方面尤其薄弱;为了补偿，他们过度使用词汇/短语和外部缓和动作来软化请求力。克莱斯对自己的语言恰当性判断缺乏信心，他们认为这样的要求比他们的NS同行更强加。方法和教学的影响突出。关键词：请求修改;学术电子邮件;感知
This paper reports on a study in Hong Kong that investigates the pragmalinguistic choices and sociopragmatic judgements of 15 American-English-speaking students (NS) and 15 Chinese learners of English (CLE) in making e-mail requests to their professors. The study found that all students tended to be indirect in making such requests. Despite the fairly strong pragmalinguistic control developed by the CLEs in realising specific indirect strategies, they were particularly weak in employing certain syntactic devices as downgraders; to compensate, they made excessive use of lexical/phrasal and external mitigating moves to soften the requestive force. The CLEs were less confident in their judgements of language appropriateness and they perceived such requests as more imposing than their NS counterparts. Implications for methodology and pedagogy are highlighted. Keywords: request modification; academic e-mails; perception