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Request Strategies: A Comparative Study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean.

Rue & Zhang (2008) 考察漢語和韓語中請求言語行為的策略。該書是最早系統對比兩個東亞語言請求策略的著述之一。該研究在方法論上的貢獻有二：一是不依賴於書面問卷而是採用自然發生的錄音會話語料；二是對語料的分析不限於孤立的單句，而是著眼於多語輪的話語序列。然而，該研究的目的在於揭示自然語言交際中請求言語行為的真實策略，但其有些結論卻完全來自於對虛擬角色扮演的分析。考慮到虛擬角色扮演中的人物並不具備真實的交際動機，本評論認為其分析應該更多地建立在自然會話語料的基礎上，以確保實現其力求揭示真實會話中的請求規律這一目標。

Request Strategies: A Comparative Study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean (2008) represents one of the first attempts to systematically compare request strategies between two East Asian languages. The study is also methodologically significant, using naturally occurring conversational data rather than relying on written questionnaires, and taking multiple-turn sequences rather than isolated individual sentences, as the scope of analysis. However, while the goal of the study is to reveal real patterns and strategies in natural talk-ininteraction, some parts of the analysis are based solely on role-playing data. Given that communicational motivations in artificial role-playing can hardly be considered to be ‘real,’ this review concludes that more analysis should be based on natural conversation to ensure authenticity in the discussion of request strategies.