Classification Of Interlocutors And Its Effects On Communication

This paper addresses the relationship between the classification of interlocutors and its communication effects. The importance of the research of classification of interlocutors, in oral communication, lies in that the orientation of communicators is the crucial part of context, and the key factor of successful communication. To execute the study, the author of this paper turns to disciplines such as pragmatics, social psychology and communication. Based on some relative theories of these disciplines, the paper uses the research methods of humanistic thought and qualitative analysis to study many examples of oral one-to-one talks, and results in classification of interlocutors----role of parents, of adult and of child, according to the standard of comparative power of communicators.The roles of communicators result from overall evaluations of the other communicator and speaker him/her self which made by the both sides. So, the role, indeed, is selected by the speaker him/her self, and is subjective and dynamic. Because linguistic features are display of these roles, analysis and orientation of speaker'role is determined by these features, formal and of content.Each talk at least has two roles and different matches of roles have different communicational effects, harmony or conflict. In a word, mutual adaptive roles will have a harmonious dialogue, and mutual not adaptive roles will have conflicts, even breakup in communications.This thesis falls in five parts. Part 1 introduces some theories on which my theory of the paper is founded. Part 2 describes three kinds of interlocutor's roles and their linguistic features. Part 3 generates the reasons which underlying these roles. Part 4 will research different matches of roles and its effects on communications. Part 5 is the conclusion drawn from above analysis and interpretations.In a word, by studding communicators'characters, the paper have found the relations of discourse and its speaker, which plays a crucial role in oral communications. And the paper would deepen its readers'awareness of discourse identities that is a foundation of successful talks.The goal of the thesis is to find the relationship between the speak and speech, and that between the speaker and communication effect through the study on the features of the speak in the verbal communication. Then it can deepen people's knowledge about the rules of verbal communication and promote the harmonious social relationships among people.