Children’s Perceptions of Polite Directives:A Case Study of Fathers’ Usage of Different Syntactic Directive Structures on Children of Different Ages（Proposal）

摘要

＜正＞1.Introduction.The present study is aimed to investigate two aspects of children’s perceptions of polite directives.Firstly,whether an age-related increase will facilitate children’s ability to perceive directives?Secondly,whether different syntactic directive structures will influence children’s ability to perceive directives?2.Literature review.Geoffrey Leech（1983）proposed