社会因素中多维权势关系对话轮转换的影响-从社会语言学角度分析《琅琊榜》中的对话_英语论文

Power and Turn-taking : Sociolinguistic Analysis of Conversations of Nirvana in Fire

摘要

近年来社会语言学研究收获颇丰，显然这段时间权势和话轮转换的关系受到了语言学家的颇多关注。学者们重视从社会语言学的角度对其进行研究。虽然已有系列成果展现在我们眼前，但这一领域研究成果有限，仍存在很多值得探索的问题。

带着对多维权势关系和话轮转换二者关系的猜想，仍有大量假设有待我们系统的研究。在前人对这二者关系研究的基础上，本文集中于多维权势关系对话轮转换的影响以及话轮转换在促进社会交往方面的作用。在对《琅琊榜》中梅长苏与不同权利阶级的对话进行社会语言学角度的分析下，本文将会运用具体数据进行以上问题的探究。

本文以小说主人公林殊为中心，他成功地运用了一系列基于话轮转换的策略于唇枪舌剑中争权夺势，实现了自己社会身份的转换，由此也证明了社会因素对话语策略影响颇大。

研究取三组本书中多维权势关系下的人物为取样对象，确保每例都包含了不同的社会等级。选取两人对话为研究样本，除中心人物梅长苏外，其余取样均来于不同的权力阶级。以典型的语言变量为参考，包将其中的话轮转换特征如话轮长度、打断、发话、话题变换视为语言变量进行研究，借此证明多维权势和话轮转换的相互关系可以在社会语言学理论框架下得以充分得到解释。多维权势关系影响话轮控制的同时掌握话轮控制的能力有助于提升交流。

关键词：多维权势关系；话轮转换；琅琊榜；社会语言学

Abstract

Having learnt a lot from series of analysis of sociolinguistics, it’s obvious that during these years, the relationship between power and turn-taking has gained much attention from linguists. Such scholars have attached more and more importance to their relationship from a sociolinguistic perspective. Although many discoveries are completed on these items, such a realm still needs more promises than accomplishments.

With the hypotheses of mutual relationship between power and turn-taking, there are a lot questions await systematic inquires. Taking earlier researches on that and sociolinguistic theoretic of conversational analysis into consideration, this paper focuses on the effect multidimensional power has on turn-taking of various aspects and it also includes turn-taking’s function of constructing social interaction. With the aid of a sociolinguistic analysis of conversations between different power classes in Nirvana in Fire, this paper aims to explore their relation according to detailed data analyses.

Concentrating on the hero of Nirvana in Fire, Mei Changsu, his successful change of personal identity throughout the tough power-struggle by the means of turn-taking strategies can be gradually cleared out as the proceeding of the detailed analysis. 

The study is carried out by choosing three pairs of characters of multidimensional power from this novel, ensuring that the complicated relationship between each pair is comprised of status discrepancy. Collecting the two-party conversations as samples, despite Mei Changsu, the other paiticipants are all chosen from different power classes. Having the typical linguistic variables for reference, turn-taking features like turn length, initiation, interruption and turn skip can be identified as linguistic variables. Analysis of these samples can validate that the interrelationship between multidimensional power and turn-taking can be fully explained with sociolinguistic framework, multidimensional power reflects turn-taking control while turn-taking helps improve communicating.

Key words: multidimensional power; Turn-taking; Nirvana in Fire; Sociolinguistics

Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1 The Rationale of the Study 2

1.2 The Significance of the Study 3

2. Theoretical Foundation 5

2.1 The Development of Sociolinguistics 5

2.2 Theories of Conversational Analysis 6

2.3 Relationship between Sociolinguistics and Conversational Analysis 7

2.4 Multidimensional Power 8

2.5 Turn-taking 9

2.5.1 Definition of Turn 9

2.5.2 Definition of Turn-taking 10

3. The Methodology of the Study 12

3.1 The Questions of the Study 12

3.2 The Subject of the Study 12

3.3 The Collection of the Study 13

3.3.1 General Introduction of the Book 13

3.3.2 Turn-takings in Conversations between the Hero Mei Changsu and Various Characters of Different Social Classes 13

3.4 The Analysis of the Study 14

3.4.1 Turn-taking Variables Involved 14

4. Case Study and Data Analysis of the Book Nirvana in Fire 15

4.1 Turn-takings in Conversations between the Hero Mei Changsu and Various Characters of Different Social Classes 15

4.1.1 Lateral Power 15

4.1.2 Upper Power 15

4.1.3 Lower Power 16

4.2 Case Study and Data Analysis of the Selected Conversations 16

5. Conclusion 18

5.1 The Summary of the Study 18

5.2 The Limitations of the Study 19

5.3 The Suggestions of the Study 19

Bibliography 21

Acknowledgements 22