关联与交际

Relevance and Communication

关联理论是语用学研究中出现的一个新的理论，它不仅试图回答有关交际的哲学 问题，而且还要对话语理解过程的心理问题进行解释。本文首先围绕交际中的代 码与推理展开讨论，旨在揭示该理论与Ｇｒｉｃｅ语用推理之间的差异；然后讨论交际 中的关联性与推理，以说明关联理论指导下理解过程；最后分析该理论在语言研 究中的启示与应用。

Pragmatics (the study of the context-dependent aspects of utterance interpretation) is a relatively new discipline which has developed rapidly in the last thirty years. Relevance theory is a new approach to pragmatics, which attempts to answer not only philosophical questions about the nature of communication, but also psychological questions about how the interpretation process unfolds in the hearer's mind. This paper outlines the main assumptions of relevance theory (developed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson), and considers its implications for the study of semantics, pragmatics and rhetoric.