摘要
英语新闻语篇中,模糊限制语具有特殊的语用价值,但已有研究未能揭示模糊限制语语用动因之间的内在联系。本文从主观性角度出发,根据视角、认识和情感三个维度构建了模糊限制语的主观性连续统,在此基础上提出了模糊限制语的主观性等级:读者导向型模糊限制语>作者导向型模糊限制语>准确性导向型模糊限制语。这三种类型模糊限制语的语用动因反映了言者不同程度的主观性,凸显了概念化主体对命题内容的客观性、主观性和交互主观性识解。本研究为模糊限制语研究提供了一个新视角,对模糊限制语的理论构建具有一定的启示意义,同时对新闻语篇中模糊限制语的教学也具有实践指导意义。
Hedging serves special pragmatic functions in English news discourse.However,current research has failed to reveal the interrelationships of the pragmatic motivations of hedging.From the standpoint of subjectivity,this paper constructs a continuum of hedging with respect to the three dimensions of subjectivity,namely perspective,epistemic modality and affect,and hence establishes a subjectivity hierarchy of hedging:reader-oriented hedges>writer-oriented hedges>accuracy-oriented hedges.The pragmatic motivations underlying the three types of hedging are suggestive of the different degrees of speakers'subjectivity,highlighting an objective,subjective and intersubjective construal of propositional content on the part of conceptualizers respectively.Our research provides a new perspective for the study of hedging,shedding light on its theoretical construction and teaching in English news discourse.
作者
齐新刚
邓云华
Xingang Qi;Yunhua Deng(Foreign Studies College,Hunan Normal University,Changsha,Hunan,China)
出处
《外国语言与文化》
2023年第3期131-143,共13页
Foreign Languages and Cultures
基金
湖南省教育厅教改项目“互动式元话语框架下的大学英语写作教学研究”(HNJG-2021-0405)
湖南省社科基金外语联合项目“英汉新闻语篇中语用含糊的批评性比较研究”(16WLH26)。
