情态动词的语境假设转换指示功能分析

An Analysis of Indicative Function of Modal Verbs on Contextual Assumption Transference

语境是由一系列假设构成,理解话语的过程就是在语境假设与新信息之间所作的推理过程。情态动词在话语中的出现成为语境假设转换的一个指示语,将现时语境假设的提取范围由事实过程转为非事实过程。话语双方以这种离开事实一定距离的关系作为话语的基础,在关联理论的制约下,提取语言意义,结合常规语境和社会文化语境,建立起新一轮的语境假设,形成新的认知语境。

Context is a generalization of a collection of assumptions.The process of understanding utterance is the inference process based on contextual assumption and new information.The modal verbs in utterance can indicate the transference of contextual assumptions,converting the contextual assumption in the forefront of attention from reality process into non-reality process.On the basis of the relationship away from reality,the participants in utterance,restricted by the Relevance Theory,obtain semantic meanings,and then together with conventional context and social-cultural context,establish a new contextual assumption.And thus a new cognitive context is formed.