| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 英語學系 === 103 === This study aims to look at the distribution of disagreements by the hosts/hostesses and male and female participants in Taiwan Panel News Discussions. Disagreements in the study are classified into four main pragmatic strategies: direct disagreement, positive markers, indirect disagreement, and off-record. The four disagreement pragmatic strategies are based on the categorization of disagreements in Brown and Levinson (1987) and Yang et al (2013).
In the present study, the results show that direct disagreement is the most frequently used strategy, which accounts for more than fifty percent among all of the disagreement tokens. The rankings of the disagreement strategies in the hosts’, hostesses’ and male guests’ disagreement expressions show similarities. The frequently used disagreement strategy is direct disagreement and the second frequently employed strategy is indirect disagreement. The third highest used strategy is off-record disagreement and positive marker is the least used disagreement strategy. Different from the hosts’, hostesses’ and male guests’ similar ranking of performances, the female guests’ production of four disagreement strategies are divided into three rankings. In the female guests’ disagreements, indirect disagreement is the highest and direct disagreement is the second highest. The other two strategies, positive marker disagreement and off-record disagreement, are both in the third rank for accounting the same percentage.
From the perspective of gender difference, the males got higher percentage than the females in the direct disagreement strategy. While in the indirect and off-record disagreement strategies, the females got higher percentage than the males. However, in the strategy of positive marker, the males got higher percentage than the females.
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