Investigating Pragmatics of Complaint Speech Acts in English and Chinese

The speech act of complaint is an important research subject of pragmatics,which is worthy of research among speech acts.With the development of research into speech acts,some scholars have performed investigations of complaints,but they have done little work on Chinese language complaints.Therefore,it is necessary to make a further study on complaint as a speech act in Chinese.This thesis is based on speech act theory and the politeness principle as an empirical study of the speech act of com plaint in Chinese.It aims to provide a more complete and comprehensive result of participant production of the speech act of complaint.     

An Analysis of Speech Structure and Perception Processes and Its Effects on Oral English Teaching Centering around Lexical Chunks

The paper tries to analyze speech perception in terms of its structure, process, levels and models. Some problems concerning speech perception have been touched upon. The paper aims at providing some reference for oral English teaching and learning in the light of speech perception. It is intended to arouse readers’ reflection upon the effect of speech perception on oral English teaching.     

Speech Act of Refusal-A Proposal from an Interlanguage Pragmatic Perspective

This paper is to present a typology of refusal strategies which may be employed in the analysis of refusal performance from a discourse approach.Some previous research carried out is reviewed in order to classify non-native speakers’ production of this speech act.Then,the suggested taxonomy will be described in a systematized way from an interlanguage pragmatic perspective and within a conversational analysis framework.Finally,it is emphasized that effective communicative competence plays an important role in the production of this face-threatening speech act of refusing.     

The Analysis of the Four Forms of Indirectness in Daily Communications

The indirect use of language is a common,widespread phenomenon in daily linguistic communication,with an aim to keep a harmonious interpersonal relationship.Though indirectness manifests itself in many ways,this paper is to discuss the four different forms of indirectness in people’s daily communications with typical examples found in both Chinese and English:politeness,indirect speech acts,conversational implicature and figures of speech.     

A Tentative Study of Figures of Speech Used in“Hamlet”

Rhetoric is a traditional discipline with a history of over two thousand years.Figures of speech play a pretty important role in verbal communication.People are attracted by"Hamlet"written by Shakespeare and his employing words and artistic enchantment.Shakespeare once learned classical literature,rhetoric,Latin and French.He is famous for his dramas.His language in dramas is rich and colorful and he is good at using figures of speech in his dramas.This paper explores some figures of speech and mainly focuses on how pun,metaphor and transferred epithet are employed in"Hamlet",in order to have a better understanding of the theme and the artistic features of Shakespeare.     

Metaphor Analysis of Chinese Premier Wen’s Cambridge Speech

Metaphor is more than an ostensible decoration of language.It is an integral part of human thought of ideologized world.This article analyzes the metaphor use of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s speech at Cambridge in February 2009,in an attempt to display how the preferred metaphors serve the purpose of this speech and reflect Premier Wen’s construction of China’s situation.     

Professional Diatheses of Simultaneous Interpretation

Simultaneous interpretation is a kind of interpretation mode, which the interpreter dose not interrupt the speaker in the case of speech, keeping interpreting the speaker’s speech to the audience.     

Professional Diatheses of Simultaneous Interpretation

Simultaneous interpretation is a kind of interpretation mode, which the interpreter dose not interrupt the speaker in the case of speech, keeping interpreting the speaker’s speech to the audience.     

A Brief Account of Chinglish

Chinglish, or Chinese English is speech or writing in English that shows the interference of Chinese language or the influence of Chinese culture. It is liable to bring about misunderstandings in intercultural communication and has become a great obstacle to English education in China. It is high time to attach importance to the problems brought about by Chinglish and seek solutions to cope with the problems in question.     

基于言语失误基础上的设计及表达分析(英文)

Human speech is an extraordinary thing as well as an ordinary thing.It is ordinary because it can be spoken and heard in our daily life;it is extraordinary because no one can get a clear idea of how it is planned and produced.The processes of planning and producing a speech are still amazing and confusing to human beings.It is quite hard to devise experiments to test what is going on concerning the processes.     

On the Differences of Apology Speech Act in Chinese and English

The language of apology is a special kind of speech which could provide support for the hearer who is offended. And speech act reflects a variety of culture norms and values and serves, the speech of apology can act as a mirror of certain cultural values in Chinese and English cultures. This paper analyzes the different categories, strategies and restraining factors of the apolo?gized speech. Then the following conclusion is arrived:The different communication ways and value orientation directly lead to the different choices of apology strategies.     

The Study of Human Body Metaphor in English Economic Discourses

Metaphor plays an important role in English economic discourses.It is not only a figure of speech but also a cognitive way of thinking.It is meaningful to discover how metaphor works in English economic discourses.     

谈话语的流畅——对于话语标识“you know”的心理语言学分析(英文)

Some learners and instructors of English language are inclined to consider the phrases like"you know""well"to be meaningless pause-fillers, which only exist to make the utterance fluent, thus they don’t like to use them too often in speech. This article gives a psycholinguistic study of the discourse marker"you know", not only does it relate the use to the speaker’s complex cognitive process in the production of speech, but also it illustrates how"you know"functions in the interaction between the speaker and the hearer. Finally, we come to conclude that it is useful and meaningful in our speech.     

On Classification and Rhetorical Effects of English Pun

Pun is one of the most common figures of speech in English. It is the humorous use of a word in such a way as to sug?gest different meanings or applications or of words having the same or nearly the sa...     

Speaker adapted dynamic lexicons containing phonetic deviations of words

Speaker variability is an important source of speech variations which makes continuous speech recognition a difficult task. Adapting automatic speech recognition （ASR） models to the speaker variations is a well-known strategy to cope with the challenge, Almost all such techniques focus on developing adaptation solutions within the acoustic models of the ASR systems. Although variations of the acoustic features constitute an important portion of the inter-speaker variations, they do not cover variations at the phonetic level. Phonetic variations are known to form an important part of variations which are influenced by both micro-segmental and suprasegmental factors. Inter-speaker phonetic variations are influenced by the structure and anatomy of a speaker＇s articulatory system and also his/her speaking style which is driven by many speaker background characteristics such as accent, gender, age, socioeconomic and educational class. The effect of inter-speaker variations in the feature space may cause explicit phone recognition errors. These errors can be compensated later by having appropriate pronunciation variants for the lexicon entries which consider likely phone misclassifications besides pronunciation. In this paper, we introduce speaker adaptive dynamic pronunciation models, which generate different lexicons for various speaker clusters and different ranges of speech rate. The models are hybrids of speaker adapted contextual rules and dynamic generalized decision trees, which take into account word phonological structures, rate of speech, unigram probabilities and stress to generate pronunciation variants of words. Employing the set of speaker adapted dynamic lexicons in a Farsi （Persian） continuous speech recognition task results in word error rate reductions of as much as 10.1% in a speaker-dependent scenario and 7.4% in a speaker-independent scenario.     

A Comparative Study of Metonymy and Synecdoche

Among the modern rhetorical devices,metonymy and synecdoche are two important figures of speech,which are analogous to each other for both use the name of one thing for that of something else.That is to say,both of the rhetorical devices involve substitution.Thus the two concepts are confusing.Metonymy emphasizes on using the name of one thing for that of something else with which it is associated.Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole,an individual for a class,a material for a thing,or the reverse of any of these.By making a comparative study of these two through the connotation and category,the author summarizes that:they are two independent figures of speech.     

A Pragmatic Study of Business English Advertisement from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

Business English advertisement is a special form of speech act.It is very different from literary language and scientific language.This paper focuses on the analysis of the use of cooperation principle in business English advertisements,and explores how advertisers inspire potential customers to have psychological resonance,so as to urge them to buy products or services.     

The Gender Differences in English Communication

This thesis is designed to analyze the concrete manifestation of gender differences in language use and speech style in English communication.Gender differences do exist in communication and will be gradually diminished with the development of society and the improvement of women’s position.     

On Classification and Rhetorical Effects of English Pun

Pun is one of the most common figures of speech in English. It is the humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest different meanings or applications or of words having the same or nearly the same sound but different meanings. Due to the comparative complexity of its formation, there are different ways of classification of English pun. And some special rhetorical effects can be achieved by the employment of English pun.