A Study On Request Speech Acts In The Business Chinese Serie

Speech acts play a very important role in daily communication,and request speech acts are a type of speech acts that are frequently used.Also,textbook is an important basis for learning language skills.Its arrangement of request speech act will have a certain impact on learners’ mastery of request speech acts.Therefore,it is necessary to study the request speech act in the field of teaching Chinese as a foreign language and business Chinese.At present,the research on the arrangement of speech act in commercial Chinese textbooks is still not enough,which deserves more attention.Therefore,this article will take a total of four volumes of the Business Chinese series published by Peking University Press as the research object.Based on previous research results,this article will make statistics on the corpus involved in request speech acts in the textbooks,and will summarize the number and types of request speech acts and strategies,as well as the selection tendency of request strategies under different influencing factors,then analyse the distribution and arrangement of request speech act in the textbook.At the same time,this article will also inspect the practice of request speech act,relevant grammar points and cultural knowledge modules in the textbook,and will analyze the specific situation of the textbook in the interpretation and practice of request speech act.Finally,according to the results of statistical analysis and investigation,this article will analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the textbook in the arrangement of request speech act,the setting of scenarios and the design of exercises,then will put forward some relevant suggestions.