默认意义新解:语法-语用互动视角

A New Interpretation of Default Meaning from the Interactive Perspective of Grammar and Pragmatics

默认意义是当今后格赖斯语用学高度关注的话题,而它的生成机制一直备受争议。基于Lewis的语言规约观,本文试图从语用-语法互动的视角论证默认意义的生成依赖于语用规约。规约分语法规约和语用规约:前者使生成默认意义的话语结构必须遵循一定的句法结构规则;后者保证听话人自动地识别默认意义,这二者分工明确。本研究的发现为解释默认意义提供了一个新的理论视角。

Default meaning is a frequently discussed topic nowadays in post-Gricean pragmatics,and views of its generation mechanism are hotly disputed among researchers.Based on Lewis's view of language conventions,the author of this article argues that from the interactive perspective of pragmatics and grammar,pragmatic conventions trigger the generation of default meaning.Conventions fall into grammatical and pragmatic ones,with the former making the generation of default meaning follow certain syntactic rules,whereas the latter ensuring that the hearer automatically re.covers default meaning such a clear division of labor between these two types of conventions may provide a new perspective to the analysis of default meaning.