Based on Thornburg and Panther's theory of speech act metonymy,the paper analyzes the speech act in Wilde's fairy tale——"The Star Child".It proposes any component in the action scenario can stand f...Based on Thornburg and Panther's theory of speech act metonymy,the paper analyzes the speech act in Wilde's fairy tale——"The Star Child".It proposes any component in the action scenario can stand for the whole scenario,and it helps save energy both for encoding and decoding during communication,and understand the coherence in a discourse.展开更多
Study of humor discourse has attracted an increasingly numerousattention since 80's of last century.Traditionally,they approach it mainly from pragmatic aspect.In this paper,I try a new research perspective,metony...Study of humor discourse has attracted an increasingly numerousattention since 80's of last century.Traditionally,they approach it mainly from pragmatic aspect.In this paper,I try a new research perspective,metonymic function and scenario concept to study how metonymic link works in the interpretation of humor as a cognitive and mental process.展开更多
文摘Based on Thornburg and Panther's theory of speech act metonymy,the paper analyzes the speech act in Wilde's fairy tale——"The Star Child".It proposes any component in the action scenario can stand for the whole scenario,and it helps save energy both for encoding and decoding during communication,and understand the coherence in a discourse.
文摘Study of humor discourse has attracted an increasingly numerousattention since 80's of last century.Traditionally,they approach it mainly from pragmatic aspect.In this paper,I try a new research perspective,metonymic function and scenario concept to study how metonymic link works in the interpretation of humor as a cognitive and mental process.
