On Communication Of Chinese Five-year-old Children

From a functional perspective, this paper describes the verbal communication ofthe five-year-old children and discusses how children use language to express them-selves in different contexts. This paper is composed of eight chapters.Chapter One is an introduction to research object, significance, theoretical back-ground, methodology and source of material, as well as a review of similar studiesconducted both home and abroad.Chapter Two to Five provide a descriptive and analytical study of the languagefunctions of five-year-old children in such categories as communicative expressions,conversational skills, situation expressions, attitude expressions, directive expressionsand emotion expressions according to the categorization outlined in functionallanguage teaching syllabus.Chapter Six and Seven analyses the children's frequent use of directive speechact and dissatisfaction speech act, and adopts social linguistics to compare children'sdifferent verbal behaviors with the adult and their companions under different circum-stances, so as to discuss factors that affect their verbal choice.Chapter Eight concludes the study and provides suggestions for future studies.This paper finds out:一,The five-year-old children are already able to identify assignment nature,power nature and role relationship. What's more, children's choice of communicationstrategies is influenced by communication objectives, will, assignment nature, powernature and social distance, among which, communication objective is the coreinfluencing factor. In terms of friend-making, a companion's personality, competenceand others'comment affect children's communication will, and such a will, if strongenough, will prompt them to give up their home discourse advantage, as well as ageand gender advantages and control their emotions and attitudes, and employ politeand corporative communicative strategies and verbal expressions.二,Through the feedbacks from others,children are able to discriminate thesubtleties of semantic differences to realize a same communicative objective and the conditions by which such differences will appear.