On Conflict Discourse Paradigm Analysis Of Chinese Debate Linguistic

Debate is a form of argument competition conducted with certain rules, a communication activity under the conflict discourse paradigm. In the debate, under the rules of topics and the specific communication intent and purpose, two parties apply strict logical arguments to refute the opponent's arguments, so as to prove his/her own opinion, thus to win. The corpus source of this paper bases on the International Collegiate Debating Competition. From pragmatic perspective, this paper conducts an analysis on conflict discourse area of the debate language, reveals the discourse structure and implication feature, and thus sum up four criteria based on the confrontation principle of debate language:profit and loss criteria, mean criteria, consistent standards and consistent criteria.This paper consists of six chapters. The first chapter is an introduction. This part has a brief review of debate language research, and the pragmatic analysis is cleared in theoretical basis, research methods, content and meaning. Chapter two is the debate language analysis in the area of conflict discourse, highlighting a special conflict type of debate discourse. Chapter three is the implication features and derivation of debate language. Chapter four is the four criteria and its features based on the confrontation principle. Chapter five is the structural analysis of debate language. It mainly analyzes four steps of debate linguistic turn-taking:turn allocation, turn contention, turn-domination, turn-transfer, as well as the part and the overall structural characteristics of debate language. Chapter Six is the Conclusion. It concludes that the Pragmatic study has a directive role in debate discourse practice and also points out the limitations and inadequacies of the study.