语境对英语情态歧义的消解

The Disambiguation of English Modality by Context

本文在厘清英语情态语义范畴化体系、情态歧义观以及情态歧义产生的根源和理据的基础上,试图探索语境对英语情态歧义的消解机制。研究发现,情景语境中的话语基调,尤其是其中的权势关系,以及上下文中的情态共现、情态源和语义指向对情态歧义都能起到消解作用。

This paper aims to establish the contextual mechanism for the disambiguation of English modality.After elucidating the categorizations of English modality,views on the ambiguity of modality,and the sources of and reasons for the ambiguity,the paper focuses on the disambiguation of English modality by context.It is found that the tenor of discourse,the power relationship in particular,and such messages in co-text as the source of modality,modal co-occurrence and the semantic orientation all play an important role in disambiguating English modality.