Speech Act in Greeting of Taiwan Southern Min

• Main Authors: WANG, LEE-FU, 王立夫
• Other Authors: Jui-Chun Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46027804109965583413

碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 外國語文學系碩士班 === 96 === Speech Act in Greeting of Taiwan Southern Min Student: Lee-Fu Wang Advisor: Dr. Jui-Chun Wu The Graduate Institute of Foreign Languages and Literatures Hsuan Chuang University ABSTRACT This thesis aims to examine speech act in greeting of Taiwan Southern Min (TSM), by observing, recording, and analyzing the real life greeting expressions among the language community at the park, the market, and the residence in Jhunan, Miaoli in order to achieve the target analyzing quantity—one hundred entities per setting, and then to interpret them from linguistic, psychological, and social perspectives, so as to find out: A. What greeting expressions in TSM are more frequently being used? B. How speech acts are being conveyed between the greeter and the greetee? C. Why they can not be isolated from the context of use? With these three phases (linguistic, psychological, and social) we may examine greeting as speech act in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) across a spectrum of proximity from micro to macro: A. Linguistic phase focuses on linguistic behavior, which represents the micro view. B. Psychological phase focuses on interpersonal interaction, which takes the larger view. C. Social phase focuses on social interaction, which reflects the macro view. Taking a close look at the findings, we may recognize and indicate that: A. The use of prefixes/nick names, conventional greetings, body language, and auditory sounds play a larger role in greeting exchanges that are similar to the analysis proposed by Schleicher (1997). B. They reflect three generalizations (to reestablish social relations, to acknowledge a differential allocation of status, and to perform guarantee for safe passage) in interpreting greeting behavior which Goffman made (1971). C. They correspond to Schegloff and Sacks (1973) introducing adjacency pairs as a part of conversational analysis (CA), Richards and Schmidt (1983) defining Greeting-Greeting adjacency pairs as closed, formulaic, and easily learned sets. The results prove that speech act in greeting of TSM does exactly reflect one’s linguistic, psychological, and social characteristics.