摘要
根据Ellen Prince(1981),话语包含话语实体、特征和话语实体之间的关系。实体是指现实世界中存在或不存在的个体,一类个体,一个样品,一种物质或一个概念等等。在她的假定熟悉度理论下,话语实体分成7类。后来(1992)对该理论修订,从听者和话语的两个角度对新/旧的定义和分类,区分了听者新和听者旧,话语新和话语旧。该理论有优点但也并非完美无瑕。
According to Ellen Prince (1981), discourse contains discourse entities, attributes and links between entities. A dis-course entity may represent an individual (existent in the real world or not), a class of individuals, an exemplar, a substance, a con-cept, etc. Within her Assumed Familiarity theory, discourse entities are classified into 7 categories. Prince (1992) updates the mod-el of Prince (1981) and turns it into a matrix of crosscutting dichotomies, classifying discourse entities in terms of their informa-tion status as either discourse-old or discourse-new and either hearer-old or hearer-new. There are merits and also flaws to her theory.
出处
《海外英语》
2013年第15期241-242,273,共3页
Overseas English
基金
国家社科基金项目"以培养具有国际竞争力人才为取向的新非英语专业大学生英语能力标准研究"的阶段性成果(项目编号:13BYY077)