言语交际中反语的顺应-关联性研究

The Adaptation-Relevance Approach to Irony in Verbal Communication

认知语言学家在整合Sperber&Wilson的关联理论和Verschuren的顺应理论优点的基础上,提出了顺应-关联理论。本文尝试性地运用该理论探讨言语交际中的反语现象,旨在更深入地探索反语生成和理解的本质过程,为反语的研究提供一个新的视角和借鉴作用。本文结合该理论对大量的反语实例进行定量分析,充分地向人们展示了反语的使用过程是一个顺应语境因素为实现最佳关联而不断做出语言选择的动态过程。另外,本部分结合实例阐释了反语的使用过程也是策略选择的过程。

Cognitive linguists propose the adaptation-relevance theory based on the integration of merits of the relevance theory of Sperber Wilson and the adaptation theory of Verschuren.This paper tentatively employs this theory to analyze irony in verbal communication,aiming at further exploring the essential process of the production and interpretation of irony and thus providing a new approach and reference to irony.This paper has applied the adaptation-relevance theory to analyzing the collected instances of irony and essentially displayed irony as a dynamic process of adapting to various contexts and making constant choices on the basis of the optimal relevance to people.Besides,it has elaborated that irony use is also a process of strategy-choosing