关联理论视角下《格列佛游记》中的反讽研究

A Study of Irony in Gulliver’s Travels from the Perspective of Relevance Theory

反讽不仅是一种修辞方法,还是一种有趣的语言现象。在文学作品中,反讽经常以间接语篇的形式出现,它不仅提高了文学作品的内涵和艺术性,而且体现了作者的才华和智慧。关联理论提出了言语交际的明示推理过程,也为理解言语反讽提供了坚实的理论基础。用关联理论来理解反讽可以更好地理解会话的交际意义,并为文学交际的语用领域打开了一个新视角。《格列佛游记》作为英国文学中最著名、最具代表性的讽刺作品之一,深受人们的喜爱。本文将从关联理论的角度对《格列佛游记》中的反讽进行分析,希望能促进人们对反讽的深入理解,从而更好地欣赏《格列佛游记》,正确地运用反讽。

Irony is not only a rhetorical method, but also an interesting linguistic phenomenon. In literary works, it often appears in the form of indirect discourse, which not only improves the connotation and artistry of literary works, but also reflects the author’s talent and wisdom. Relevance theory puts forward the ostensive-inferential process of language communication and provides a solid theoretical foundation for the understanding of irony. To understand irony in literature with relevance theory can better achieve the understanding of communicative meaning and opens up a new perspective for the pragmatic field of the literary communication. As one of the most famous and representative ironic works in English literature, Gulliver’s Travels is popular with many people. This thesis analyzes the irony in Gulliver’s Travels from the perspective of relevance theory to promote people’s deep understanding of irony, so that they can better appreciate Gulliver’s Travels and use irony correctly.