A Study on the Pragmatic Failure Caused by the Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue_英语论文

摘要

随着全球化的发展，世界之间的距离缩短了，国家与国家之间的交流也变得更加频繁，但交流之间的误解、冲突常常使交流以失败而告终，这便成为了交流的最大阻碍。交流之间的误解与冲突常常是由于各种原因导致，但其中最大的原因之一便是语用失误。国内外学者也从语言知识、文化知识缺乏等多方面的影响对语用失误原因的进行研究，而在众多原因之中，母语负迁移对语用的影响是毋庸置疑的，因此本文主要从母语负迁移对语用失误造成的影响进行阐释。本文主要研究框架由五部分组成：首先简单地介绍了本课题的研究意义；第二，回顾总结了国内外语用失误的研究；第三部分是本文的核心部分，主要介绍了迁移的定义、分类以及发展；第四部分举出详例从词汇、句法、语篇等方面阐释母语负迁移对语用失误造成的影响；最后一部分是对全文的总结概括并提出了一些教学方面的建议。

关键词：语用失误 语言迁移 母语负迁移

Abstract

With the development of globalization, the distance between the world becomes short and communication between countries becomes more frequent. But misunderstanding, conflict often makes communication break down, which becomes the biggest obstacle to communication. The misunderstanding and conflict between communication are often caused by various reasons, but one of the greatest reasons is the pragmatic failure. And scholars at home and abroad have done numerous researches from different aspects about reasons which cause pragmatic failure. And among many reasons, the influence of negative transfer of mother tongue on pragmatics is obvious. So the author mainly explain the influence of negative transfer of mother tongue on pragmatic failure in the following 5 parts. Part one is the introduction which briefly introduces the significance of this study. Part two is the literature review which introduces the previous theories and researches on the pragmatic failure. Part three is the theoretical basis which introduces the definition, classification and the development of language transfer. Part four is the data analysis in which the author will use some examples to explain the implications of negative transfer on the pragmatic failure from aspects of lexical, syntactic, discourse and intercultural level. And part five is the conclusion of this paper based on previous parts and gives some suggestions on English teaching to reduce the pragmatic failure. 

Key Words: Pragmatic Failure; Language Transfer; Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue

Contents

1  Introduction 1

2  Literature Review 3

2.1 Definition of Pragmatic Failure 3

2.2 Researches on Pragmatic Failure 4

2.3 Causes of Pragmatic Failure 5

2.3.1 The Lack of Linguistic Knowledge 5

2.3.2 The Lack of Cultural Knowledge 6

2.3.3 The Influence of Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue 7

2.4 Summary 8

3  Theoretical Basis 9

3.1 Definition of Language Transfer 9

3.2 Classifications of Language Transfer 9

3.3 Development of Language Transfer 10

3.4 Summary 11

4  Data Analysis 12

4.1 Lexical Level 12

4.2 Syntactic Level 13

4.3 Discourse Level 14

4.4 Intercultural Level 14

5  Conclusion 16

Bibliography 18

Acknowledgements 20