英语新闻标题中模糊语的语用功能分析及跨文化教学启示

An Analysis of the Pragmatic Vagueness in the English News Headlines and Implication to Cross-cultural Teaching

模糊语是言语交际中的一种常见现象。在新闻这种特殊性文体中,模糊语的使用也十分广泛,尤其在新闻标题中。模糊语的使用具有多种语用功能,既可以顺应新闻标题概括、真实、准确等语言特点,又可以达到吸引读者注意、含蓄地传达立场等的作用。英语新闻是我国学生学习英语的重要途径。文章以英语新闻中的模糊语为研究对象,从语言使用和语言理解的角度对其应用进行具体分析,初步探讨模糊语在新闻标题中的言语表征和语用功能,帮助学生提高英语新闻理解能力,进而引导学生树立跨文化语用意识。

Pragmatic vagueness is one of the common language phenomena in verbal communication,which is also widely used in the special stylistic discourse of news,especially in news headlines.The use of vague language has a variety of pragmatic functions,which can not only conform to the linguistic characteristics of news headlines such as generalization,authenticity,and accuracy,but also capture readers’attention and implicitly convey reporters’attitude.English news is an important approach to learning English.In this paper,vague language in English news is taken as the research object.From the perspective of language use and comprehension,the paper analyzes the application,the verbal features,and pragmatic functions of vague language in news headlines,aiming at steering students to improve their comprehension ability of English news and cultivating students to establish cross-cultural pragmatic awareness.