间接地使用语言是人类语言交际的一个普遍现象,语言学家从语用学角度称之为间接言语行为。间接言语行为有其自身的特点,直接影响着人们的日常交际活动,并给英语学习者(尤其是初学者)带来了很大的困难。因此,在英语教学中,教师有必要教给学生一些间接言语行为的知识和间接交际的策略。 Indirect use of language is a common phenomenon in human language communication, and linguists call it indirect language behavior from a pragmatic point of view. Indirect speech acts have their own characteristics, which directly affect people’s daily communicative activities and bring great difficulties to English learners (especially beginners). Therefore, in English teaching, teachers need to teach students some indirect speech acts of knowledge and indirect communication strategy.