基于语义学-语用学并合模式的默认意义研究

Default meaning from a semantics-pragmatics merger approach

由于经典格赖斯会话含义理论不能很好地解释所言中的语用成分,默认语义学提出了语义学和语用学并合研究的新模式,认为对所言扩充的意义是默认意义。本研究系统阐述了默认语义学的理论背景、特点及缺陷等问题,并针对其存在的不足提出了解决方案。研究发现,作为温和语境论的代表,默认语义学框架下的默认意义为推导的意义,它受到句法的限制,表明默认语义学本质上是以语用学为根本原则的交际行为理论。

Since Grice's theory of conversational implicature cannot well explain pragmatic elements in what is said,Default Semantics proposes a semantics-pragmatics merger representation model, in which the enriched meanings of what is said are default meanings. This paper presents an overview of this model and discusses its theoretical concerns such as specialties and defects of Default Semantics. It is found that default meanings are inferential in nature, which needs the help of syntactic constraint. In essence, default semantics, as a moderate contextualist approach, is a pragmatics-based semantic theory of acts of communication.