Analysis Of Motivation For Indirect Language Production

In real life, indirect language always exists. Indirect language production is complicated, concerning not only context and hearers, but also the speaker's psychological factors.Generally speaking, psychological factors, in terms of individual psychology, involve motivation, cognition, affection, personality, etc. Motivation is defined as an inferred internal process that activates, guides, and maintains behavior over time (Baron, 1992:362). It's believed to be internal processes that can't be directly observed, but can activate, guide, and maintain overt behaviors, and also can be inferred indirectly through the choice of tasks, level of exertion, insistence of activities, language production and more outer behaviors. Motivation can be categorized in many different ways, according to the level of consciousness, it can be divided into two aspects: conscious motivation and unconscious motivation. The author discusses the conscious motivations of indirect language production, that is, the speaker's or writer's indirect language production is intentional to some degree. The result of analysis shows that the speaker's indirect language production mainly involves the following motivations: showing politeness, making the language more vivid and impressive, avoiding taboo words, excluding the third party, meeting the need for esteem, communicating affections, hiding information purposely, performing varied illocutionary or perlocutionary forces, declaring one's position, avoiding committing social errors.Hence the thesis comes to the conclusion that motivations are the basic premise of indirect language production, the same motivation may lead to various indirect language production; on the other hand, indirect language production may come from different kinds of motivations, there are close relationships between motivation and indirect language production.It's believed that the study, which explores the relationship between motivation and indirect language production from the perspective of psycholinguistics, will be of some help to grasp the static characteristics of indirect language, and to explore...