英语会话含义分析.docVIP

合肥学院外语系学生过程考核报告 课程名称 英语语言学 得分： 班级：08英语（1）班 学号：0812010007 姓名：严婷婷 The Analysis of Conversational Implicature In the year 1957, a philosopher and logician, Paul Grice made a distinction between what is said by a speaker of a verbal utterance and what is implicated. He specified two kinds of implied meaning or implicature: conventional implicature and non-conventional implicature. Of the types of non-conventional implicature, conversational implicature is included, the introduction of which will be the focus of my paper. Before talking about Grice’s theory, let’s see an anecdote. It is a famous headline in newspaper. A director wants to know about the performance of an actress so he asks another director who has given her a role in a famous movie with the question of “How do you think of her performance?” And at the same time, the actress knows it is a big chance for her if the previous director could recommend her to the latter director. So she expresses her eager to take a role in new movie and requests the previous director could do her a favor. However, in fact, she is not a good actress in performing such a role in new movie whereas the director does not to refuse her please directly, so he says: “She is beautiful” as the response. In fact, the claim that she is beautiful means she is not good at performing the roles in movie. Here is what implicature functions I. Implicature First coined by Grice, the word “implicature” can be defined as what is intended by the speaker; invisible meaning or implicit meaning; additional conveyed meaning that is more than what words mean; what is communicated in context, not the meaning of words, phrases or sentences. II. Meaning and Intention Since the intention of the speaker has to be involved in communication, an analysis of meaning is necessarily done in terms of intention. This means that speaker intends the utterance of a sentence to produce some effect in an audience by means of the recognition