This research has taken notice of the speech act, in that it is not always used as the imperative form, but also used for various sentence forms such as the descriptive and interrogative, as well as being a proper pattern of modality marker. Therefore...
This research has taken notice of the speech act, in that it is not always used as the imperative form, but also used for various sentence forms such as the descriptive and interrogative, as well as being a proper pattern of modality marker. Therefore, this paper has tried to explain the non-consistency phenomenon (the so-called indirect speech act), which has existed in the speech act of Chinese between the pattern (type of sentence) and its meaning through the request scenario model of Panther & Thornburg (1998). There is not only a predicted, non-conventionalized indirect speech, which depends entirely on the context and speech act environment, among the requests of indirect speech act. There is the common speech act medium, used from the cross-linguistic perspective, and the universal mechanism for the speech act being implemented. Of course, there are slight differences in each language in that such a medium is actualized in a material way. Therefore, this paper has revealed the pattern and characteristics of each pattern of request speech act in Mandarin Chinese through the review of usage pattern of requested speech act. As a result of the analysis, there are some cases of request speech act implemented as a single medium of speech act, which is a part of the manner element being relevant to Chinese request speech act of request scenario of "Before-Core-Result-After", and there are several cases in which each of the manner elements is relevant to more than two parts of a scenario that have been actualized in a single speech act, as complex mediums of speech act which implements the request speech act.