A Pragmatic Analysis of Request as a Strategy in English—— A Case Study of Modern Family Abstract Making request as one of the speech act has been studied in the field of pragmatics。 Up to now, the major researchers are Austin (1962), Searle (1976), Dirven&Verspoor (1998), Blum-Kulka (1989), House & Kasper (1989), Evrin-Trip (1976) and so on。

Through analyzing the corpus from Modern Family, this paper aims at revealing the factors that influence the choice of request strategies, how do the factors work while the speaker is making the request and what kind of strategy do people prefer to employ under what kind of situation。 75720

The research shows that the major factors that influence the choice of the request strategy are respectively dominance, controllability of act, age and gender。 Because Modern Family is set under the family background, the influencing factors like situation and social distance have little influence on the use of request strategy。 Among four major variables, variables like dominance and ag‘’/e have nearly the same influence on the speaker’s choice of the request strategy。 Controllability of act as one of the major variables has profound impact on the speaker’s choice of the request strategy。 The overall tendency to employ the request strategy among family structure is by using the direct strategy and unconventionally indirect strategy。

Key Words: request; strategy; influencing factor; Modern Family

摩登家庭请求场景的话语分析

摘  要请求言语行为在语用学领域已经存在大量研究。目前，主要的研究者有Austin (1962), Searle (1976), Dirven&Verspoor (1998), Blum-Kulka (1989), House & Kasper (1989), Evrin-Trip (1976) 等等。通过分析摩登家庭的语料，该研究目的在于揭示影响请求策略选择的因素，探究各因素是如何影响人们使用请求策略以及在不同因素为主导的情况下，说话者是如何选择请求策略的。

研究显示影响请求策略的主要影响因素有权势差异，请求行为的难易程度，年龄，性别。因为摩登家庭是设立在家庭背景下，情景，社会距离等影响因素对请求策略几乎没有影响。在四个影响因素中，权势差异和年龄对说话者请求策略的影响效果几乎相同。请求行为的难易程度对请求策略的选择有很大的影响。在家庭结构下的请求策略的选择偏向于直接性策略和非规约性间接策略。

关键词：请求；策略；影响因素；摩登家庭

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature review 2

2。1。 Studies on Speech Act Theory 2

2。2。 Theories about the request strategy 2

3。 Analysis of request in Modern family 3

3。1。 Non variables in the use of request strategy 3

3。1。1。 Situation 3

3。1。2。 Social distance 4

3。2。 Major variables in the use of request strategy 4

3。2。1。 Dominance 4

3。2。1。1。 Speaker dominant: A>B 4

3。2。1。2。 Hearer dominant: A<B 5

3。2。1。3。 Status equal: A=B 6

3。2。2。 Controllability of acts 7

3。2。2。1。 Controllability of act is high 7

3。2。2。2。 Controllability of act is low