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英语拒绝言语行为的语用研究——以美剧《绝望主妇》为例的开题报告.docx

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英语拒绝言语行为的语用研究——以美剧《绝望主妇》为例的开题报告 Introduction Refusalisacommonlanguageactindailycommunicationanditisanimportantaspectofinterpersonalinteraction.Whensomeoneisaskedtodosomethingtheydonotwanttodo,theymayrefuse.InEnglish,refusalcanbeexpressedinvariouswaysanditisinfluencedbyculturalnormsandsocialsituations.Therefore,studyinglanguagebehaviorrelatedtorefusalhasgreatsignificanceinimprovinginterculturalcommunication.AsapopularAmericanTVseries,DesperateHousewivesprovidesarichcorpusofexamplesoflanguagebehaviorrelatedtorefusalamongitscharacters.ThisstudyaimstoexplorethepragmaticfeaturesofEnglishrefusalspeechactsinDesperateHousewives. LiteratureReview Speechacttheory,proposedbyAustin(1962)andfurtherdevelopedbySearle(1969),providesatheoreticalframeworkforanalyzinglanguagebehavior.Refusalisoneofthespeechacts,whichcanbedefinedas“theactofdecliningtodosomethingthatsomeonehasaskedyoutodo”(Liu&Zhang,2008).Sincerefusalspeechactsareofteninfluencedbyculturalnormsandsocialsituations,thespeechacttheoryandpolitenesstheory(Brown&Levinson,1987)haveprovidedappropriateanalyticaltoolsforstudyingthepragmaticfeaturesofrefusal. Previousstudiesonrefusalhaveexploredvariousaspectsofthespeechact,suchaslinguisticstrategies,culturaldifferences,andsocialcontext.Huang(2007)analyzedthepatternsofrefusalstrategiesusedbyChineseandAmericanEFLlearners.HefoundthatChinesespeakersweremoredirectandlesspolitethanAmericanspeakers.Thisstudyshowedtheimportanceofculturalnormsinspeechactrealization.Similarly,KimandKasper(1995)foundthattherewerecross-culturaldifferencesinrefusalpatternsamongAmerican,German,andKoreanspeakers.Theyarguedthatrefusalswereinfluencedbyculturalvaluesandcommunicationexpectations. DesperateHousewivesisaTVseriesthatdepictsthelivesoffoursuburbanhousewivesandtheirfamilies.Theshowisknownforitsdarkhumor,melodrama,andsatiricalportrayalofsuburbanlife.Intermsoflanguagebehavior,theshowprovidesrichexamplesofrefusalspeechacts,whichareoftenusedtocreatedramatictensionandhumor.PreviousstudiesonDesperateHousewivesha