转喻回指照应的认知语用阐释

A Cognitive Pragmatic Approach to Metonymic Anaphor

回指在传统上被认为是建立在语言表层上的互指关系,但转喻回指往往涉及一种没有明确先行项的深层回指。深层回指由语用因素控制,且须从认知角度来解释。在认知语用框架下,探讨了转喻回指照应机制,指出转喻回指是在特定语境条件下,以言者表达的意图为主导,听者的认知推理为导向,在寻求转喻回指的关联性解读过程中建立先行词与回指语之间的语义连通。

Anaphora is traditionally taken as co-reference at the linguistic level,but metonymic anaphor,which belongs to deep anaphora with no clear antecedent,is controlled by pragmatic and cognitive factors.With in the framework of cognitive pragmatics,this paper discusses the mechanism of metonymic anaphora,and points out that in a specific context metonymic anaphora is motivated by speaker＇s reference and constructed by means of hearer＇s inference.It is the attempt to make an utterance relevant that ultimately establishes the conceptual connectivity between antecedent and anaphor.