The Study On Pragmatic Features Of 4 Years Old Children With Sever Hearing Impairment In Mother-Child Reading

The study on children' pragmatic is an important component of pragmatic study, which has drawn attention from international linguistics prevalently, and became one of the four hot spots in the field of children' language development with semantic,syntax,phonetic. The study on pragmatic of both normal children and deaf children has drawn attention from scholars home and aboard to carry out amount of studies. But the study on pragmatic features of children with hearing impairment in mother-children reading is basically in a blank stage. Under this background, this paper takes a good advantage of the research finding home and abroad, especially the study of framework of Harvard University, to discuss the pragmatic features of children with sever hearing impairment in mother-child reading. The study is made in three levels: speech interchange, speech act and speech flexibility. The participants are seven 4-year children with sever hearing impairment and their low educational background health mother.Results indicates that: (1).The main types of speech interchange that children with sever hearing impairment uses in the process of mother-child reading are: DJF-Discuss a Joint Focus of Attention; DHA-Directing Hearer's Attention; TXT-Read Written Text. (2).The main types of speech act that children with sever hearing impairment uses in the process of mother-child reading are: ST-State or Make a Declarative Statement; RT-Repeat or Imitate other's utterance; TX-Read or Recite Written Text Aloud; SA-Answer a Wh-question by a Statement; AA-Answer in the Affirmation to a Yes/No Question; DC-Create a New State of Affairs by declaration. (3)The rate of speech atcs that children with sever hearing impairment uses in the process of mother-child reading are: Questions and Responds, Statements and Responds; Induces and Responds; Performances, respectively. (4).The main types of speech flexibility that children with sever hearing impairment uses in the process of mother-child reading are: DJF: RT. (5). The total number of the speech interchanges and speech flexibilities that children with hearing impairment and their health mothers use in the process of mother-child reading is in the same level, whereas, the total number of speech acts that their health mothers use is obviously higher that that of children. (6). DJF- DJF-Discuss a Joint Focus of Attention; NLA-Negotiating the Immediate Activity; DHA-Directing Hearer's Attention are the shared central speech interchanges that children with hearing impairment and their health mothers use in the process of mother-child reading. (7). ST-State or Make a Declarative Statement is the shared central speech acts that children with hearing impairment and their health mothers use in the process of mother-child reading. Health mothers use more questions to communicate and give their opinion on their children's acts(QN,YQ), whereas, children use more answers to communicate. (8).Children with hearing impairment can use various speech acts to discuss the joint focus of attention or the immediate activity, but these speech acts are just to answer their mothers' questions or sate their own opinions, they still can't ask question by themselves. (9). There is no significant relation between 4-year-old children with severe hearing impairment and their health mothers on the number of types of speech interchanges, speech acts and speech flexibilities.