An Analysis Of Seafarers' Pragmatic Strategies In Their English Interviews

The same as other interviews,seafarer's English interview is the core part for shipowners to select crewmembers.But owing to the obvious disparity of status and power between the interviewer and interviewee,the less powerful subject-interviewee should actively adopt effective pragmatic strategies,except for solid English listening and speaking skills in order to win interviewer's recognition and further gain pleasing results.The thesis is based on cooperative principle and politeness principle,combining both quantitative and qualitative analysis.In order to reflect the characteristic of seafarer's English interview,the field recordings of seafarers,who are successful in interviews and joined their targeted companies,are randomly selected.Then these recordings are transformed into text in order to make convenience for the research.Recordings of 30 interviewees are employed as samples of the research.In accordance with the statistical results,the analysis is given around the maxims under the cooperative principle and the politeness principle.The analysis results illustrate the specific application of the cooperative principle and the politeness principle in the seafarer's English interview and explain how interviewees use effective pragmatic strategies to increase the success rate of the interviews.The results demonstrate that in the context of seafarer's English interview,a great number of answers given by interviewees observe cooperative principle and politeness principle to make the conversational contribution meet the interviewer's requirement,simultaneously expressing politeness.Comparatively,only a small number of answers fail to observe some maxims under cooperative principle and politeness principle for achieving beneficial purposes.Besides,in the context of seafarer's English interview,the application of each maxim of the cooperative principle and the politeness principle possesses its particular characteristics.How successful interviewees apply the cooperative principle and the politeness principle in the seafarer's English interview to increase the successful rate is analyzed in the thesis.The analysis result has significance of reference for seafarers who are preparing to attend interview and it also provides some inspiration for seafarers to more effectively apply pragmatic strategies.