A Corpus-based Study on Pragmatic Strategies of Chinese Comforting Message and Their Organization

The comforting message is a very important expression speech act and a common important component of daily communicative behavior, it has both importance and practicality. This paper adopts the method of corpus statistic, we built a 4.82 million-word small Chinese oral corpus through the interception of contemporary life-class novels dialogue, collected to a total of 403 items, 713 words of comforting message. Based on the collection of modern Chinese language corpus, the pragmatic strategies are analyzed. This paper amends the elements of the comforting message, summarizes the five important elements, and classifies the pragmatic tactics of the modern Chinese comforting message according to five elements, so as to solve the classification problem in the existing research. This paper summarizes the two major categories of "main strategy" and "minor strategy", altogether 19 points strategy, and makes statistics on the frequency and frequencies of each type of strategy and sub strategy. At last, the combination application of the tactics of the comforting message in corpus is discussed.