论话语联系语之形态的认识与理解之相关性

On Forms and Cognitive Relevance of Discourse Connectives

旨在探讨话语联系语(discourse connectives)以及话语联系语在语境和语境假设中存在的理据。根据Sperber和Wilson的关联理论,多层面讨论意义生成和理解过程中需要遵守的原则以及话语联系语对意义所起的推动或制约作用,并认为:话语联系语,是寻找和确立关联的重要依据,除了其显性的形态,也应该存在另类形态的可能。它们均能在听话者现有的认知基础上产生可能的语境假设。听话者通过努力,尽力识别文本提供的新语境,在不断推理和否定之否定过程中获得更深层次的新认识,从而建立新的语境和语境假设,帮助听话者做出合理的推理判断。

This paper explores discourse connectives and their occurrences in contexts and assumed contexts. Based on Sperber and Wilson 's relevance theory, we thereby discuss howdiscourse connectives constrain deduction and induction in discourse interpretation. Besides the apparent forms,there are visually hidden yet mentally existing forms of discourse connectives requiring the listener 's cognitive knowledge to connect his known information with that of the speaker and to help produce newcontexts and assumed contexts,which contribute to a sensible interpretation by the listener.