| 英文摘要 |
This paper draws upon Bourdieu's (1991) theory of linguistic practice in the context of learning Chinese as a second language to conduct quantitative analysis of the impact of symbolic power relationships in communication on the oral expression complexity of Chinese learners. The study selected oral texts produced by 10 intermediate-level Vietnamese learners of Chinese in conversations, where the learners had different roles in positions of dominance and/or subordination. These texts were analyzed based on 50 indicators of lexical and syntactic complexity. The findings revealed that power dominance relationships significantly influenced 17 lexical complexity indicators (including 1 lexical density indicator, 4 lexical sophistication indicators, and 12 lexical diversity indicators) and 12 syntactic complexity indicators (all of which are collocation-level indicators) in second language learners’oral production: In terms of lexical complexity, an increase in the learners’status led to a greater tendency to use intermediate and advanced vocabulary in the conversation, with a corresponding increase in total lexical output over the same period. Regarding syntactic complexity, based on the symbolic power relationship, while there were no significant differences in the sentence -level complexity indicators, the collocation-level indicators showed notable differences. These results suggest that the learners’position in the conversation affects the richness of content and the complexity of linguistic forms in their oral production. Additionally, due to negative transfer from their native language and the order of acquisition, Vietnamese learners of Chi nese demonstrated lower usage frequencies of frame prepositions and prepositional verbs in oral communication. This study highlights the applicability of the theory of linguistic practice in the field of Chinese language teaching and learning, deepening the understanding of the interaction mechanisms between power and language. |