电影《魂断蓝桥》中话轮沉默的认知语用分析-外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docx

I I Acknowledgments I am glad to have this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to the people who have contributed to my writing of this thesis in various ways. First of all, I would like to express my special gratitude to my supervisor, Associate Professor Zhou Shujun, who has been very generous with his time in helping me decide on the topic and improve the content and organization of the thesis from the outline to the finalized version. His insightful suggestions and valuable comments have contributed greatly to the completion of this thesis, without his help and support; this thesis would not have been accomplished. My gratitude also goes to all the teachers and specialists who taught me graduate courses in the past years. I am further indebted to all the scholars and authors whose works and research results I have consulted. In addition, I am sincerely grateful to my classmates and friends for their constant encouragement and valuable suggestions in my writing and in my academic study. It is their generous help that makes this thesis a reality. Last but not least, I would like to send my thanks to my family whose support and love are always the exhaustible source of comfort and strength. I am especially grateful to my father and mother, for their love, understanding and support. A Abstract II II Abstract Silence is a prevalent phenomenon and occupies an important position in whole framework of human communication. The correct understanding of it is very important in interpersonal communication. In recent years, the study of silence has been a hot issue in different disciplines at home and abroad. However, in the field of linguistics, the research on silence has not yet come to agreement. Therefore, a study of silence should become a piece of important task in linguistics. The theoretical framework of this study is relevance theory proposed by Sperber &Wilson. Relevance theory, a cognitive psychological theory, treats human communicational act as a cognit