对曹禺话剧文集对话中照应修正的认知分析外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

M. M. A. Thesis of Chongqing University ABSTRACT PAGE PAGE IV ABSTRACT Anaphoric repair, one of the most fundamental language phenomena, is regarded as one of the central issues .the study of the phenomenon in English has a long history in a variety of disciplines. Researchers have analyzed anaphoric repair phenomenon in English from various distinct theoretical perspectives, and got the conclusion that it touches upon multi-constraints, however, the study for Chinese is so limited, so this thesis is anchored by Ariel’s accessibility theory and based on the fundamental concept of accessibility, we take an analysis about the mechanism and process of anaphoric repair and the referential choice in repair sequence in CaoYu’s Chinese drama conversations. Altogether 52 instances of anaphoric repair from CaoYu’s Chinese dramas were collected for our analysis. The thesis takes a conversation analytic approach to anaphoric repair in data analysis, with the combination of qualitative and quantitative methodology, by focusing on two research questions. These two questions are how anaphoric repair phenomena are distributed in conversation discourses? What are the factors influencing the choice of referential expression forms in conversation discourses? Accessibility, the psycholinguistic concept, borrowed from psychology, which signals the relative ease or convenience of retrieving a linguistic or memory unit from the structure of memory in man’s brain. According to Ariel, the degree of accessibility of a discourse entity’s mental representation is associated with its activation in man’s memory and the reason why varying referring expressions are employed lies in different accessibility marked to the addressee. The accessibility degree of referring expressions is governed by the three encoded principles: informativity, rigidity and attenuation. So varying referring expressions can be arranged in a marking scale whose accessibility ranges from low to high. Ariel summarizes f