The indirect use of language is a common,widespread phenomenon in daily linguistic communication,with an aim to keep a harmonious interpersonal relationship.Though indirectness manifests itself in many ways,this paper...The indirect use of language is a common,widespread phenomenon in daily linguistic communication,with an aim to keep a harmonious interpersonal relationship.Though indirectness manifests itself in many ways,this paper is to discuss the four different forms of indirectness in people's daily communications with typical examples found in both Chinese and English:politeness,indirect speech acts,conversational implicature and figures of speech.展开更多
Foreign language teachers may have long observed learners' grammatically correct, yet situationally inappropriate verbal communication. To make sure they conduct speech acts appropriately, language learners should...Foreign language teachers may have long observed learners' grammatically correct, yet situationally inappropriate verbal communication. To make sure they conduct speech acts appropriately, language learners should possess communicative skills and pragmatic competence. This paper addresses how to raise learners' pragmatic awareness through making requests in English.By exploring the verbal indirectness and politeness of requests, the paper aims to facilitate learners' ability to make socially appropriate utterances.展开更多
On the Critical Period Hypothesis,Robinson indirectly supported it in his paper Individual Differences,Cognitive Abili ties,Aptitude Complexes and Learning Conditions in Second Language Acquisition.This paper digs out...On the Critical Period Hypothesis,Robinson indirectly supported it in his paper Individual Differences,Cognitive Abili ties,Aptitude Complexes and Learning Conditions in Second Language Acquisition.This paper digs out that time-boundedness and different lengths of time are important issues in his frame work,closely related with the critical period of time for language acquisi tion.In conclusion,Robinson’s framework is convincing,with the premise of admitting the existence of the critical period hy pothesis.展开更多
文摘The indirect use of language is a common,widespread phenomenon in daily linguistic communication,with an aim to keep a harmonious interpersonal relationship.Though indirectness manifests itself in many ways,this paper is to discuss the four different forms of indirectness in people's daily communications with typical examples found in both Chinese and English:politeness,indirect speech acts,conversational implicature and figures of speech.
文摘Foreign language teachers may have long observed learners' grammatically correct, yet situationally inappropriate verbal communication. To make sure they conduct speech acts appropriately, language learners should possess communicative skills and pragmatic competence. This paper addresses how to raise learners' pragmatic awareness through making requests in English.By exploring the verbal indirectness and politeness of requests, the paper aims to facilitate learners' ability to make socially appropriate utterances.
文摘On the Critical Period Hypothesis,Robinson indirectly supported it in his paper Individual Differences,Cognitive Abili ties,Aptitude Complexes and Learning Conditions in Second Language Acquisition.This paper digs out that time-boundedness and different lengths of time are important issues in his frame work,closely related with the critical period of time for language acquisi tion.In conclusion,Robinson’s framework is convincing,with the premise of admitting the existence of the critical period hy pothesis.
