有定名词短语间接回指与语用推理

Indirect Anaphora of Definite NP and its Pragmatic Reference

在言语交际过程中,人的大脑通过交际活动话语中的某个明说内容或结构对其非明说的指称对象进行推理的一系列非显性思维活动构成了间接回指现象。由有定名词短语建立的间接回指的成因和理据有Grice的“适量准则”和Levinson的“信息原则”。在此基础上发展起来的关联理论对于间接回指语现象有着更强的解释力。

Indirect anaphora is a relatively new field in recent linguistic research and it refers to the non-demonstrative thinking process of human brains by which the existence of a referent which has not itself been explicitly mentioned is inferred from something that is explicitly mentioned. Definite NP is one special category among anaphoric expressions. Based on Grice＇s Q-maxim and Levinson＇s I-Principle, the Relevance Theory is effective to a certain extent in the interpretation of indirect anaphora of definite NP.