关联理论视角下的跨文化误解研究-外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

Master Master’s Dissertation of Henan University of Science and Technology PAGE PAGE IV 者减少误解出现的机率。本文虽然以跨文化交际误解为研究对象，但文中对误解 形成原因的分析同样适用于其他语言的误解现象。最后，本文运用认知语用学的 理论解决跨文化交际学课题，促进了两门学科的融合和对话。 关 键 词：关联理论，跨文化误解，明示，推理，语境 论文类型：应用研究 Abstract Subject: Study on Intercultural Misunderstanding from the Perspective of Relevance Theory Specialty: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Name: Dong Wenzheng Supervisor: Associate Prof. Gao Dongjun Abstract In recent years, with the rapid development of the world economy and frequent contacts between different countries, intercultural communication is getting more and more important. However, misunderstanding often occurs in intercultural communication due to various reasons. Misunderstanding might result in anger, quarrel and conflict. It may even arouse racial discrimination and hatred between people from different cultures or countries. The thesis, by analysis the reason for intercultural misunderstanding with the new cognitive theory—Relevance Theory which belongs to cognitive pragmatics, attempts to deepen our understanding of misunderstanding so as to avoid or reduce it in intercultural communication. In the book Relevance: Communication and Cognition, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson proposed Relevance Theory which aims to explain how the hearer infers the speaker’s intended meaning in 1986. Sperber and Wilson point out that communication is an ostensive-inferential process. For the speaker, on the basis of assumptions s/he made about hearer, s/he makes manifest his/her informative intention and communicative intention through ostensive behavior. For the hearer, communication is a process in which s/he infers the speaker’s communicative intention on the basis of the combination of the hearer’s ostensive behavior and his/her own context. The hearer’s inferential process is non-demonstrative which has no fixed premises in inference process. Sperbe