关联整合模式下英语移就的认知分析-cognitive analysis of english transfer under relevance integration model.docx

AbstractTransferred epithet, as a special language phenomenon, transfers the property possessed by one thing to the modification of the other. It creates new semantic matches and cognitive style. The linguists have injected huge interest in the transferred epithet for a long time. But most of the studies concerning transferred epithet focus on its rhetoric features, rhetoric functions and psychological mechanism. What is still in need is a comprehensive and penetrating study on its meaning construction and comprehension mechanism. Up to now, a final verdict and model has not been formed. The Relevance Theory and Conceptual Blending Theory are two popular theories in the transferred epithet studies: Relevance Theory provides a general cognitive principle for the transferred epithet comprehension; Conceptual Blending Theory gives a vivid demonstration of the mental construction process of transferred epithet. However, neither of the two theories is able to fully elaborate the cognitive mechanism of transferred epithet comprehension and they only have partial explanatory power. The present study explores the integration of the two theories and constructs an RT-CBT model for the English transferred epithet comprehension based on the analysis of the possibilities and necessities of the integration. This model starts with the cognitive context and the cognitive inference. Based on the dynamic context, the model treats the transferred epithet comprehension not only as a process of cognitive inference exploring communicational intention, but also a process of space blending of utterance meaning.This thesis carries out researches from cognitive perspective and points out the cognitive context is the main factor in the process of comprehending transferred epithet. Encyclopedic knowledge, logic information and lexical information consist of cognitive context of transferred epithet; however they should be more specific to the relations, status, gesture and expression as well as