论最佳关联在英语报刊新闻标题中的实现-外国语言学及应用语言学专业毕业论文.docxVIP

ii ii Abstract Relevance Theory is one of the most significant theories in pragmatics. It is widely used in discourse analysis. Recent years, there are many pragmatic studies on discourse analysis. Some are on TV programmes, some are on advertisements, and some are even on cartoon dialogues. But there is little analysis on how to achieve optimal relevance in English newspaper headlines. This thesis is based on previous studies on discourse analysis and studies on Relevance Theory, aiming at finding the ways in which optimal relevance is achieved in English newspaper headlines. Communication is an ostensive-inferential process, and the research focuses on the journalist?s ostensive process, the reader?s inferential process, and the achievement of optimal relevance in this ostensive-inferential process. This research uses qualitative analysis. The data is collected from experiments of 50 seniors who have passed English TEM-8 exam in the college. The experimenter will pick up a total of 50 headlines on 5 themes in English newspaper. Each of the subjects will be asked to infer the content of the news from those headlines, and then their supposition will be compared with the news. After the experiments, the headlines with optimal relevance of each theme will be analyzed to answer the research questions. Keywords: optimal relevance, Relevance Theory, English newspaper headlines iii iii 摘 要 关联理论是语用学三大理论之一，也是语用学中最具影响的理论之一。关联 理论被广泛用于话语分析。近几年，有许多关于话语分析的研究。由于强大的解 释力，关联理论被用于各种话语分析，一些研究是关于电视节目中主持人和嘉宾 的话语分析，一些是关于广告中的话语分析，还有一些是关于动画片中人物对话 的话语分析。也有许多研究是针对英语新闻标题和最佳关联展开的，但是把二者 结合起来，尤其是对英语新闻报刊中的最佳关联展开的研究，很难找到。对英文 报刊新闻标题的分析也属于话语分析范畴，本文将在前人对话语分析和关联理论 研究的基础上展开分析，旨在找到英语报刊新闻标题中实现最佳关联的方法。 根据关联理论的观点，交际是一个明示推理的过程，本文也将聚焦在记者的 明示、读者的推理过程，以及最佳关联在英语报刊新闻标题中的实现这三个部分。 本文采取定性分析法。作者将英语新闻报刊按内容分为五大类，平均每类选取十 条新闻，并对50位英语专业通过专业八级考试的大四同学进行试验。每位受试者 将被要求通过新闻标题来推测新闻内容，再将推测结果与新闻正文对比，契合度 高的新闻标题即具有最佳关联的标题，将被挑出来进行分析总结，回答本文的三 个研究问题。 关键字：最佳关联；关联理论；英语新闻报刊标题 PAGE PAGE iv Contents Acknowledgments i Abstract in Engli