《傲慢与偏见》中言语反讽的关联理论研究.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 9 学校代码: 10036 课程论文开题报告 《傲慢与偏见》中言语反讽的关联理论研究 培养单位: 英语学院 课程名称: 语言学 研究方向: 经贸翻译 作 者: 赵明玉 日 期: 二〇一三年 九月十日 1 Introduction Verbal irony is a interesting and significant phenomena in conversational interactions, Many scholars has engaged in researching it so as to make clear its cognitive-pragmatic mechanism. And the thesis, based on the achievements made within the relevance-theoretic framework, applies the method of quantitative as well as qualitative analysis and studies the specific verbal irony cases in Pride and Prejudice. It takes verbal irony as a case and presents a comprehensive account of the generative and operative mechanisms underlying its use as well as the communicative effects it may produce or is intended to achieve in order to fully reveal its richness of meaning, diversity of function and complexity of use, especially in setting up a new viewpoint to comprehend the literary texts. Need for the Study It has been thousands of years for studying irony, which can be traced back to the ancient Greeks. After Plato, many scholars from various studying fields analyzed and explained this kind of language phenomenon—irony. The study of irony first originated in the field of rhetoric. Later, many analyses on irony appeared in the fields of semantics, psychology, pragmatics and especially cognitive pragmatics. With the development of pragmatics, many a scholar preceded deep and theoretical studies on its application, among which Grice’s interpretation of conversational implicature, Searle’s insincere speech act theory, and Leech’s politeness theory were of great significance. In 1981, Sperber and Wilson opened the door into a new world of irony comprehension. They proposed treating irony as a kind of implicit echoic dissociative use within the framework of Relevance Theory, developing the study of ironic utterances into a cognitive field. According to Sperber and Wilson, one of the questions that should be kept in mind in assessing a ne