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Consideration on deixis on the Chinese Conversation Textbook: Focused on Women(我們)
Cross-Cultural Studies
2013,
31(), pp.309-330
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2013.31..309
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2013.31..309
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
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This paper aims to examine distribution and patterns of Women(我們) on Chinese conversation textbook, and also suggest that Chinese class need to impose pragmatic perspective. For this purpose, this paper explores 35 Womens in 42 conversation units on three Chinese textbooks Hanyu Kouyu vol.1~3 at first. Women is more contributed on ‘exclusive Women’ among three categories (inclusive, exclusive, borrowed) than other two categories, is also contributed on ‘symbolic usage’ than ‘gestural usage’. Second, this paper examines patterns of Women on the three categories. It shows: first, ‘inclusive Women’, ‘exclusive Women’, ‘borrowed Women’ all show up on the textbooks even though on the textbook vol.1(for beginner) surprisingly; Second, ‘exclusive Women’ may be a primary one of three categories in terms of the coverage of Women. Women covers those who are related with the speaker regardless of being on the spot, and also covers those which the speaker belongs to, for example, nationality, ethnicity etc. Consequently, the results show that Chinese speaking course, from now on, needs to consider pragmatic factors including existing semantic and syntactic factors, and from the pragmatic perspective, impose ‘action’(including speech act, body gesture etc.) on Chinese conversation class for the learners’ improvement in Chinese speaking.
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