以奥斯汀的言语行为理论和戈夫曼以及布朗、列文森的面子理论为基准,对《红楼梦》前六十回故事中家人之间拒绝言语行为特征进行了分析和研究。研究显示:家人之间所使用的拒绝言语行为既有犀利、自谦式直接拒绝言语行为,亦有自贬、规约式间接拒绝言语行为,其特征的复杂性无不彰显出那个时代的文化印记。 Based on Austin’s theory of speech act and Goffman and Brown and Levinson’s theory of face, this paper analyzes and studies the refusal of speech acts among family members in the first sixty stories of A Dream of Red Mansions. The research shows that the refusal of speech act used by family members is both sharp and self-humiliating. It directly denies speech act as well as self-derogatory and indirect rejection of verbal act by the statute. The complexity of its characteristics shows the cultural imprint of that era.