“小大人”和“老小孩”——基于心理模型的语用推理

Oxymoron:Model-based Pragmatic Reasoning

矛盾修辞格是含有技巧成分的语言,它通过表面上的矛盾说法来说明事物具有两个不同方面的特征,目的是增强说话人的态度和含意。但矛盾修辞格与一般语言不同,矛盾修辞格的文字表达式在现实中找不到所指对象,只能通过含意推出所指对象的特点从而确定所指对象。这是由于一般话语和修辞话语之间存在有距离,即文字表达和意图之间的距离。这样的修辞语言可以通过"基于心理模型的语用推理"范式理论及"自主—依存成分、显性—隐性工作框架"得到合理的解释。

Oxymoron is used to present the different aspects of characteristics within one thing through two literally opposite meanings. As a kind of language with tricks, oxymoron is different from everyday language use. There are gaps between them, or gaps between literal expression and intention. The things that oxymora refer to could not be found in the real world and could be determined only through reasoning or by identifying its characteristics. The mechanism of the like rhetoric expressions eould be given a reasonable explanation through the Model-based Pragmatic Reasoning Theory and its two working frameworks.