关联理论视阈下大学英语阅读教学研究

Research on the Teaching of College English Reading from the Perspective of Relevance Theory

外语学习中阅读理解是一块重要的内容,人们通常通过阅读获取信息,它也是一项较为复杂的心理活动。大学英语课程中,英语阅读教学是极其重要的一门课程,近年来,基于对阅读理解的研究不断发展,阅读理论和技巧的大量引入,大学英语教学发生了很大变化。斯波伯(Sperber)、威尔逊(Wilson)合著的《关联:交际与认知》(Relevance:Communication and Cognition)书中详细论述了关联理论,引起很多研究者的关注,有被用来解释翻译学、语用学和语篇分析等语言现象的,也有分析阅读教学的。论文在关联理论框架的基础上,首先分析了阅读理解拥有关联理论相同的本质,在阅读中,作者和读者展开了交际,这个过程是一个明示推理的过程,读者可以通过语境找到和作者之间的最佳关联;然后详细探讨了关联理论视阈下大学英语阅读教学的策略,以加强学生语用能力的培养。

Reading comprehension is not only an important content in foreign languages learning but also a complicated mental activity by which people obtain information.English reading is a very important one among the English courses in universities.In recent years,with the development of study on reading comprehension and the introduction of reading theories and skills,English teaching in universities have had great changes.Sperber and Wilson introduced the relevance theory in their book Relevance:Communication and Cognition in detail,which has attracted much attention among researchers who use the theory to explain translation,pragmatics,passage analysis and reading teaching analysis.Based on the relevance theory frame,this paper first analyzes the nature of reading comprehension.It's a communication activity between authors and readers and also an ostensive-inferential one,during which readers can find out the optimal relevance with the author through context.Then the paper argues the strategies for the teaching of English reading in universities from the perspective of relevance theory in detail,thus to strengthen the training for students'pragmatic competence.