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摘要：本文以西方经典电影傲慢与偏见为例，基于Austin和Searle的言语行为理论﹑Brown & Levinson的“面子理论”以及Leech的“礼貌原则”的理论，通过对其若干典型的对话片段的研究，从性别差异的角度对两性在实施拒绝言语行为时的策略选择进行了研究，旨在发现他们之间的异同以及出现差异的原因。

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3.2.1 Silence/Hesitation...................................................................................................... 9

3.2.2 Facial Expression..................................................................................................... 10

3.3 Data analysis................................................................................................................... 11

4.0 Reasons for Gender Differences in Refusal Stragegeies………………………………11

4.1 Social-phychological Reason.......................................................................................... 11

4.2 Cultural Reason.............................................................................................................. 12

5.0 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………..13

5.1 Major Findings................................................................................................................ 13

5.2 Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Future Study......................................... 13

References……………………………………………………………………………………15

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Rearch Bankground

1.1.1 Studies Abroad

Language, as a carrier of thought, is the most important communication tool of mankind. In modern society, people express their different needs and opinions in the form of many kinds of utterances on particular occasion. But sometimes they may debate one’s opinion or decline one’s request, invitations, suggestions and so on by saying polite words or impolite words. Refusal is one of familiar utterances that frequently used in daily life. For the speaker and the hearer, it is necessary for them to employ the approprite ways for organising their language directly or indirectlu in the conversation. The aim of employing differernt communicational devices in conversation is not only to avoid misunderstanding in a social interaction but also to reduce harm to the face of other people in conversation.

Austinproposed the theory of speech act in 1960’s, which was developed by Searle in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. Since then many researchers have engaged in various studies with the speech act and got some significant results. In 1985, Beebe & Cummings made a contrast between refusal speech acts conducted in spoken and written languages and used Discourse Completion Test to collect a large number of corpuses, and found that discourse completion method is an effective method of data collection, which set conditions of semantic model analysis and identification of refusal speech acts.

Later on, Beebe, Takahashi & Uliss-Wdtz (1990) made a comparison between the refusal speech acts adopted respectively by Japanese-speaking people and English-speaking people and found that the Americans tend to refuse in more indirect ways while the Japanese would like to use more direct ways of refusing, especially to those with lower social status. And it was found in this research that the discourse c本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。