论语用平衡

On Pragmatic Balance

社会文化背景下的言语交际者在具体的交际情境中会面对各种需求。常规情况下,说话人在选择其话语内容及方式时会努力顺应自己及对方的交际需要,以维持言语交际的平衡,从而实现自己的交际目的。实例分析表明,语用平衡假设对特定交际方式的形成具有很好的解释力。

Verbal communication is a kind of socio-psychological interactive behavior characterized by linguistic adaptation. The interactive sides each have their communicative needs. By default, the rational communicators take these needs into consideration when they choose the content and manner of their speech. Given a particular set of communicative needs, they normally make adequate pragmatic effort to accommodate these needs in order to maintain the equilibrium of the interaction. This is what we purport to postulate as the hypothesis of pragmatic balance. It is pre-sumed that successful communication hinges on the maintenance of such a balance. Demonstrably, the hypothesis rooted in the pervasive socio-psychological interaction can account for the formation of a particular communicative style at any point of the verbal communication.