Revisiting the theory of territory of information: How first-year university Chinese students handled first-hand and second-han information  

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Lu, Jian Tao

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 43 no. 15 (2011), page 3720–3744.
Topik: The theory of territory of information Evidentiality The Written Discourse Completion Tasks (WDCTs) Psychological utterances/forms First-hand information Second-hand information
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This article presents an investigation into the theory of territory of information in Chinese. As early as 1994, Kamio proposed a pragmatic theory of territory of information. Kamio claims that the theory is valid not only for Japanese but also for English (1995). The locus of this theory is the notion of territory, which is familiar from studies of animal behavior. In the present study, a questionnaire was used to inquire into subjects’ understanding of first-hand and second-hand information. In addition, twelve Written Discourse Completion Tasks (WDCTs), which represent a method for inter-language pragmatic assessment in the area of language testing, were used (Brown, 2001; Liu, 2006). The subjects in this study were sixty first-year students who were pursuing two different non-English majors at a university in Mainland China. The data show that, although the notion of territory in terms of first-hand and second-hand information was acquired by the students to a certain extent, some of the forms they used in handling these two types of information are distinct from those used in English as Kamio specifies. The present study posits that the theory of territory of information is valid in Chinese; however, some modifications must be made to Kamio’s formulation of the theory regarding the patterns of occurrence of psychological utterances and the conditions for assessing the directness of information

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