关联理论对合作原则的发展

Relevance theory and its development of cooperative principle

关联理论是对合作原则的发展。关联理论提出了"明示—推理交际"概念和把语境看成一个心理建构体的认知语境概念,建立了用演绎推理来寻找输人语句的命题和语境假设之间的关联性的话语理解推导机制,将应用范围从对话分析扩大到各类语篇,所有这些都不同程度地丰富和发展了合作原则,有助于澄清人们在关联理论同合作原则的关系问题上存在的一些误解。

The present paper holds the view that Relevance Theory (RT) is the development of Cooperative Principle (CP). RT puts forward the notion of OstensiveInferential Communication, and the notion of cognitive environment regarding context as a psychological construct, establishes an inferential mechanism of utterance interpretation searching for the relevance of proposition to contextual assumptions by means of nondemonstrative deduction, and enlarges the range of application of the theory from conversations only to various kinds of discourse. All these enrich and develop CP greatly. We hope that this paper can help to clarify the misunderstanding of the relationships between RT and CP.