Face Threats and Ritual Interaction in International Chinese Debating Competition from the Perspective of Ritual and Speech Act

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10.2991/978-2-38476-263-7_63How to use a DOI?

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face threats; speech acts; ritual frame; debating competition

Abstract

In the ritual context of debate, debaters often use a variety of speech acts to realize face threats, and follow the conventionalized formulaic expressions within the ritual frame to convince the audience and refute the other side. Based on the ritual frame of the third wave of politeness and the interactive typology of speech acts, this paper examines what speech acts can be used to realize face threats and how debaters realize ritual interaction from the perspective of ritual and speech act in International Chinese Debating Competition. The results show that debaters realize face-threats through speech acts such as Request, Complain, Opine, Tell etc. The speech acts of Opine and Complaint are used to threaten the positive face of the other side to achieve the refuting function, and that of Request is used to threaten the negative face of the other side to achieve the questioning function. The ritual interaction in debate is mainly realized by the patters of “Initiate – Counter – Initiate”, “Initiate – Satisfy – Counter” and “Initiate – Counter – Counter”. This study explores the relationship of speech acts, face threats and ritual interaction in debate. In the future, further attention can be paid to speech acts and ritual interaction in other ritual contexts.

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AU  - Fan Sun
AU  - Limei Bai
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/07/03
TI  - Face Threats and Ritual Interaction in International Chinese Debating Competition from the Perspective of Ritual and Speech Act
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 2nd International Conference on Language, Innovative Education and Cultural Communication (CLEC 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 513
EP  - 522
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-263-7_63
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