商务英语语用学教程课件 Chapter 6 Adaptation Theory(1).pptVIP

Your assignment 1. Memorize the key notions about Adaptation Theory. 2. Think about how we can apply AT in business English translation. * Adaptation Theory (顺应理论) Procedures Introduction Adaptation theory Context Practice Homework The fittest, the survival. In order to survive, we must try to adapt ourselves to the environment. A case The following sentences are often used by us to get a pen from the others: Give me a pen. I want you to give me a pen. Will you give me a pen? Can you give me a pen? Would/Could you give me a pen? But how do they differ? What is the respective situation each is made to adapt to? choice-making First, choices are indeed made… Language use is also a choice-making process. Third, the process of choice making can… Second, language users not only … Fifth, language users have no… Finally, choices evoke… Fourth, language users make linguistic choices in both… Sixth, not all language choices… Examples: Give me the key to your bike. Can I ride your bike? I was wondering whether you could be so kind enough to lend me your bike? Examples: I stepped onto the top, with strong waves whistling below. money time 衣带渐宽终不悔，为伊消得人憔悴。 Lifes just a simple choice question, A or B, cry or smile, thats all there is. What will determine our choice? Adaptation theory Jef Verschueren 维索尔伦 variability negotiability adaptability 变异性 协商性 顺应性 D. Can you/ Are you able to give me a ride? e. Would/ Could you give me a ride? a. Give me a ride. b. I want you to give me a ride. c. Will you/ Are you willing to give me a ride? It is constituted by the shared knowledge of…; Context is the joint of Speaker and Hearer; Context is dynamic; Context includes communicative context 交际语境 and linguistic context 语言语境; Context 语境 Context: yet a new account physical world 物理世界，物理纬度: it has much to do with the time- and location- relating linguistic choices. social world 社交世界，社交纬度: it concerns all kinds of social factors that languag