Research On The Application Of Chinese Suggestion Speech Act By Foreign Student

Chinese Suggestion and Persuasion is a commonly-used speech act. Its power is between ask and request, with altruism and freedom of choice as its characteristics. Through multiple choice questionnaire, discourse completion tasks, personal interviews, and with native Chinese as a reference, this paper investigated the ways in which intermediate’and high-level Chinese-learning foreign students use and control their suggestion and persuasion language.The major contents and fields this paper covers are:(1) Summarize the form, strategy and function of Chinese suggestion and persuasion.(2) Analyze the context element that impact the use of Chinese suggestion and persuasion and compare the different features of different people influenced.(3) Investigate the forms and strategies of Chinese suggestion and persuasion used by foreign students with different language-level and cultural background.(4) Define the perlocutionary act and the its different method and the effect of different speech act.(5) Analyze the perlocutionary act and its effect of Chinese suggestion and persuasion used by foreign students with different language-level and cultural backgroundThe major results of this research includes:(1) The influence of context elements on different people diverse. Asian students are more influenced than western students. Females mostly focus on elements related to "human", while males mostly focus on elements related to "things". The major elements which exert the greatest impact are:intersubjective relationship, states of objects, psychological element. Asian women are deeply influenced by these elements, and western men are the least influenced group.(2) There’s a great diversity in the forms and strategies of Chinese suggestion and persuasion used by foreign students with different language level and cultural backgrounds. High-level students use the language more accurately, suitably and diversely. Asian students prefer to use more indirect ways to express personal idea. On the whole, foreign students prefer to express subjective thoughts and describe object facts, but pay little attention to the thoughts of other people and potential results of the act.(3) The combination of direct and indirect strategies will receive the best effect. The most successful and acceptable strategies are asking needs, possibility and will of others, raising hypothesis and giving promises. Statements and questions are the best sentence patterns, better than commands. The degrees of action, speech and attitude conformity in different contexts also differ from each other.(4) The speech act effect of foreign students is not as good as expected. With various people, environment and content of dialogue, most students have the ability to control their suggestion and persuasion to some degree, but are unable to hold the dialogue as a whole. Their "push" is not sufficient in some cases and too much in others. The overall improvement in language proficiency will, to some extent, promote the ability of pragmatic use of language.(5) In the regard of language teaching, foreign students hope to enhance their study in common words, structure and proper tones of Chinese suggestion and persuasion, as well as their practices of daily talks and deeper understanding of Chinese culture and unique modes of thinking.