幽默话语研究的关联理论视角——评Francisco Yus教授的《幽默与关联》

On humorous discourse from relevance theory perspective:A review of Francisco Yus’ Humour and Relevance

幽默一直是话语研究的热点之一。在日常交际中,当说话人意图传递某种幽默效果时,听话人是如何运用认知推理策略以获得这一幽默效果的?这是一个涉及编码刺激与心理表征加工的动态过程。作为认知语用学基础的关联理论强调话语理解中语用推理的最佳关联,该理论可以合理诠释各种幽默话语,为幽默话语研究提供了一个新的视角。《幽默与关联》一书以关联理论为视角,探讨其在不同幽默语篇中的应用,是了解关联理论的最新发展与应用,追踪幽默话语的前沿研究不可多得的一部著作。

Humor is one of the hottest topic in discourse studies.In daily communication,what infer-ential strategies will interlocutors perform in order to process the discourses and obtain the ex-pected humorous effects when speakers attempt a humorous outcome of their discourses?This dynamic process involves understanding of speaker's coded stimuli and his mental representa-tions.Relevance theory,a cognitive pragmatics theory of human communication,emphasizes the optimal relevance in the process of pragmatic inference,which could account for the processing of humorous discourses.This book is an application of relevance theory to different types of hu-morous discourse,and provides a new perspective on the latest development of relevance theory and its application in humorous discourse.