文档介绍：A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts A Cross-Cultural Study on Refusal Strategies in Chinese and British TV Series Candidate : Chen Haijiao Major :English Language and Literature Supervisor : Zhong Hua Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074, P. R. China May, 2014 万方数据独创性声明本人声明所呈交的学位论文是我个人在导师指导下进行的研究工作及取得的研究成果。尽我所知,除文中已经标明引用的内容外,本论文不包含任何其他个人或集体已经发表或撰写过的研究成果。对本文的研究做出贡献的个人和集体,均已在文中以明确方式标明。本人完全意识到,本声明的法律结果由本人承担。学位论文作者签名:日期:年月日学位论文版权使用授权书本学位论文作者完全了解学校有关保留、使用学位论文的规定,即:学校有权保留并向国家有关部门或机构送交论文的复印件和电子版,允许论文被查阅和借阅。本人授权华中科技大学可以将本学位论文的全部或部分内容编入有关数据库进行检索,可以采用影印、缩印或扫描等复制手段保存和汇编本学位论文。保密□,在__ _年解密后适用本授权书。不保密□。(请在以上方框内打“√”)学位论文作者签名:指导教师签名:日期:年月日日期:年月日本论文属于万方数据华中科技大学硕士学位论文 I Abstract In the process of cross-munication, misunderstanding may emerge due to the differences existing in various cultures. In order to get a better understanding of different cultures and facilitate cross-munication, we have to learn more about other cultures that we may encounter. Language is a mirror of culture; hence studying language is a good way to find out cultural differences. This study was conducted to examine the speech act of refusal and refusal strategy. Based on Austin and Searle’s speech act theory, Goffman’s face theory, Brown and Levinson’s and Gu Yugueo’s politeness principle, the study made parison on the use of refusal strategies in TV series by Chinese and British people so as to discover the cultural differences between these two countries and the underlined factors that influence the choice of refusal strategies. This research studied 200 refusal situations in total, 100 collected from three Chinese TV series and the other 100 collected from three British TV series. Then the data was grouped based on Beebe, et al.’s classification of refusal strategies. Data analysis suggested that in both Chinese and British TV series, people tend to use indirect refusal strategies. The three most frequently used indirect