语用学Chapter 6 Relevance theory陈新仁何自然何伟.pdfVIP

Chapter Six Relevance Theory I. The origin of Relevance Theory II. Different models of communication III. Context in RT: a cognitive construct 2 IV. Two principles of relevance V. Types of cognitive effects VI. Calculating cognitive effects VII. Explicatures vs. implicatures 3 I. The origin of Relevance Theory As one of the most influential theories in the field of pragmatics, Relevance Theory proposed by Dan Sperber and Deidre Wilson in the 1980s in their book Relevance: Communication and Cognition, purports to describe and explain linguistic communication from a cognitive point of view. Many linguists take it as the supplement and amendment of the Conversational Implicature and the CP proposed by Grice. 4 Relevance: An assumption is relevant in a context if and only if it has some contextual effect in that context. (Sperber and Wilson, 1995, 122) Extent condition 1: an assumption is relevant in a context to the extent that its contextual effects in this context are large. Extent condition 2: an assumption is relevant in a context to the extent that the effort required to process it in this context is small. (Sperber and Wilson, 1995,125) 5 II. Different models of communication The code model The inferential model The ostensive -inferential model Informative intention and communicative intention 6 Code Model (semiotic information literal meaning) Encoding (speaker) acoustic si