试论预设中的元语用意识——《红楼梦》个案研究毕业论文.doc

 ANALYSIS OF METAPRAGMATIC AWARENESS IN PRESUPPOSITION --- WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO A DREAM OF RED MANSIONS By Zhang Xingjie Under the Supervision of Professor Zhu Yue A dissertation Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the School of Foreign Studies Anhui University April 2008 Acknowledgements During my writing of this thesis, many scholars, friends and family members have offered me generous help and warm encouragement which I will never forget. At the completion of my thesis, I would like to give my sincere thanks to them all here. Without their help, this thesis would never have been completed. First and foremost, I owe special gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Zhu Yue, for his insightful comments and meticulous guidance in my writing of the thesis. I have benefited a lot from discussions with him. I also feel obliged for his helpful suggestions and great patience in the scrutiny of the drafts of the thesis. I am also greatly indebted to the professors and teachers in SFS of Anhui University for their thought-provoking lectures on pragmatics, which have greatly aroused my interest in pragmatics and provided me with basic knowledge in pragmatics. Thanks also go to my family members and friends for their readiness to give me kind help and encouragement during my writing of the thesis. i Abstract Using language must consist of the continuous making of linguistic choices, consciously on unconsciously, for language-internal or language-external reasons. Language is permanently negotiable and has a property called adaptability, which enables language users to make negotiable linguistic choices from a variable range of possibilities to meet their communicative needs. Presupposition is an important language strategy in everyday life. Language users choose certain kind of language form to convey specific meaning. At the same time, they also choose strategies to achieve their communicative goals. The objective o