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Indirect Request’s Processing Based on Force-Dynamic Theory
WU Yi-mei, CHEN Zheng
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2021.10.014
College of Foreign Languages, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
This paper focuses on one of the indirect speech acts, indirect requests. This paper firstly introduced how force-dynamic theory works and analyzed the same situation of indirect request that involves different utterances by applying Talmy’s force-dynamic theory. It reveals how indirect request is processed between speakers and listeners by adopting patterns explanation, and also gives cognitive interpretation of it. Besides, from cognitive linguistic perspective, it was found that there are three factors that may influence the result of indirect request, which contain the strength of utterance’s illocutionary force, listener’s willingness and pertinence relation between utterance and speaker’s purpose. All the factors will appear when an indirect request is produced, however, there will be at least one of them at the prominent position. This paper partially uncovers how we operate at the cognitive level when indirect requests are delivered.
indirect request, force-dynamic patterns, illocutionary force, language processing
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, October 2021, Vol. 11, No. 10, 817-822
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