摘要
This paper examines the phenomenon of sociocultural transfer and its motivating factors within the realization patterns of speech act refusal by Chinese EFL learners. EFL refusal data were collected using a written data collection test (DCT), which was designed and then followed by semi-structured interviews. Using semantic formulas as units of analysis, EFL refusal responses were compared with similar data elicited from native speakers of English. The results show two areas in which sociocultural transfer is existent in EFL learners' speech: options of selecting semantic formulas and content of semantic formulas. Each was found to reflect cultural values transferred from Chinese to English. Furthermore, based on the interview data, it was found that learners' social system and political factors, traditional socio-psychological ideology and economy possibly motivate sociocultural transfer.
本文调查中国学生在处理拒绝型言语行为所出现的文化迁移及其诱因。调查采用书面数据收集法分别对中英受试者的回答就语义结构的选择、语篇的长度及语义结构的内容进行对比,结果发现文化迁移现象确实存在。另外,通过访谈发现,中国学生的传统社会心理意识、社会制度及政治因素、经济状况等因素是导致文化迁移的诱因。
