汉语天气预报语篇中冗余现象的语用研究word格式论文.docxVIP

four pragmatic functions; namely, function of maintaining social relationships; of protecting people’s lives and property or improving people’s living standard; of helping to understand weather and weather forecast; and of gaining time for forecasters to organize their language.Language’s adaptability to the social world is very pervasive. Among the utmost social factors which linguistic choices are interadaptable with are communicative norms. To maintain good social relationships, communicative norms including greeting, apology, and explanation etc. must be observed in communication. Weathercasters mainly choose to greet audience at the beginning of the program, apologize for inaccurate forecast and explain why disparity between sensory weather and forecast weather arises to sustain good relationship with the audience.Mental world plays a significant role in triggering language choices and coloring interaction. Aspects of mental world may be activated in language use are extensive, including personality, emotions, beliefs, desires or wishes, motivations or intentions. In weather forecast, what affects the choices of language most is the motivation or intention of the weathermen. As their primary concern is to protect people’s lives and property in the coming of bad weather via precautions and improving people’s living standard in normal days via offering weather information for people to arrange their life, they choose to make explicit the message conveyed in core weather information and remind people to take precautions.To make the forecast fully understood by audience is another factor affecting weathermen’s language choice, because audience may have never heard of some terms in the forecast. To adapt to this context, they add related meteorological knowledge to the forecast when it is necessary.Verbal fillers like “呃、啊、呵、呢” in Chinese weather forecast mainly function toprovide time for the speaker to arrange the talk, or for the hearer to comprehend the message.