Study On Responses In Agreement Adjacency Pair In Mandarin Chinese Facing Teaching Chinese As A Second Language

Speaker's intention is usually to be showed in speech communication in real intercourse. The speaker accomplishes the function of some speech act while expressing such an intention. If the first speaker's intention is acceptable to the respondent, the respondent will make a response to satisfy speaker's need while what he intends to do expressed in his turn This is called "preferred answer" and the converse is called "dis-preferred answer". The response in agreement that we have discussed in this study is a kind of preferred answers.This study is the first attempt to systematically explore the response which may show respondent's agreeing with the first speaker or agree to do something in Mandarin Chinese dialogue borrowing the notion of "adjacency pair". In brief, "adjacency pair" is just a turn-taking in which one person speaks and another person responds in Conversation Analysis theory.This dissertation is made up of three parts:introduction, text and conclusion. The text is divided into 4 chapters, the summary is as follows:Chapter One includes the introduction, the object of study, related research home and abroad in linguistics, purpose, and methods of study.In Chapter Two we have defined the definition of agreement for the first time, and we found that there are three types "agreement" in Mandarin Chinese. The notion of "agreement adjacency pair" is been raised. Different types of response (the second part of "agreement adjacency pair") in agreement usually require connection with some particular types of the first part.—e.g. "assent" as a response in agreement only requires opinion; "confirmation" as a response in agreement only requires conjecture, "acceptance" as a response in agreement only requires request, demand, command, suggestion, offer, invitation and apology. This above fact corresponds with the conditional relevance between the first part and the second part (response) in the characteristics in "adjacency pair".Recognizing the pragmatic function type of the first part has been noted to be a prerequisite for the second language learners to make a response in agreement in the right speech occasion to avoid communication breakdown or pragmatic failure. The nonnative speaker needs to find out the sentence types of the first part and to find out the speech act types of is the only way to recognize the pragmatic function type of those. Finally, we concluded the condition that the first part occurring in "agreement adjacency pair" should satisfy. In Chapter Three the pragmatic function types of the first part in "agreement adjacency pair" has been pointed out from the speaker's viewpoint according to the different types of speech acts of the first part. We found that there are twelve conventional speech acts usually acting as the first part. In order to help the second language learners to recognize the first parts which might introduce response in agreement and find out the actual speech intention, the conventional syntax constructions or marks matching with the pragmatic function types of the first part have been addressed one by one in this chapter.In Chapter Four almost all the means of response in agreement with multiple examples have been demonstrated in Mandarin Chinese. Different means have been divided into two levels:one is the response in agreement containing "differentiating form;" the other is that in agreement without "differentiating form," which is composed of direct means and indirect means. In addition, the means of response in agreement of nonverbal behavior in speech intercourse, such as movement, silence have been simply introduced.In Chapter Five the sentiment types of response in "agreement adjacency pair" has been summed up from the respondent's viewpoint for the purpose of being learned and imitated by the second language learners, and we also listed the conventional forms of responses with different sentiment types in agreement so that the learners who regard Chinese as a second language can communicate decently with the native Chinese speakers in daily conversation.Chapter Six is the conclusion in which we have made the main conclusion of this dissertation, and the aspects where we will make more effort to study in the future are also given in this chapter.