_荷恩等级关系变化评论（英文） horn degree.docVIP

A Critic Study of the Validity of the Horn Scale 荷恩等级关系变化评论 Name: Bao Man Degree: Master of Arts Major: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Supervisor: Zhu Yue School of Foreign Languages, Anhui University 10. May. 2005 Abstract The Horn scale was intended to serve as an effective means of inferring the Generalized Quantity Implicatures by Levinson in the 1980s, but many linguists or pragmatists cast doubt upon its universality ever since its appearance in the Neo-Gricean pragmatic apparatus; and what is more, Huang Yan even rejects it in his own study of anaphora th