Relevance_Theory选编.pptVIP

Relevance and Understanding D.Wilson 凌辰 1512 A Summary of Relevance and Understanding Introduction Understanding Overt Communication The Nature and Role of Context Relevance Theory The Criterion of Consistency with the Principle of Relevance Some Consequences of Relevance Theory Introduction Intentional comunication ( involves a degree of manipulation or concealment) Overt communication 明示交际 (there are no hidden intentions in it ) Communication (overt,intentional) Understanding (recovering the overtly intended interpretation) Understanding the utterance:relevance and understanding are two sides of a single coin. 2. Understanding Overt Communication Code Model语码模式 （all theories of communication were based on a single model.According to the code model, communication is achieved by encoding （编码）and decoding（解码） messages.) 语码模式(解码过程): 认为交际是对信息的解码和编码的过程。 Communication and understanding involve more than mere linguistic encoding and decoding. Three main questions that the hearer of an utterance has to answer (the gap between sentence meaning and utterance interpretation): What did the speaker intend to say? What did the speaker intend to imply? What was the speakers intended attitude to imply? What did the speaker intend to say? (1) If you are looking for a good job,were offering a thousand a week. garden pathutterance: an utterance on which hearers quite systematically get the wrong interpretations first,and have to correct it. Grace: Saying is generally contrasted with implying,or implicating.Every utterance is seen as communicating a variety of propositions（判断）,some explicitly（直接地）,others implicitly（含蓄地）. b) What did the speaker intend to imply? Sometimes ,it is quite clear what the speaker intended to say,but less clear what he/she intended to imply. (2) I always treat other peoples money as if it were my own. implicature:the intended implications of an utterance