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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
1Introduction
Verbalironyisainterestingandsignificantphenomenainconversationalinteractions,Manyscholarshasengagedinresearchingitsoastomakeclearitscognitive-pragmaticmechanism.Andthethesis,basedontheachievementsmadewithintherelevance-theoreticframework,appliesthemethodofquantitativeaswellasqualitativeanalysisandstudiesthespecificverbalironycasesinPrideandPrejudice.Ittakesverbalironyasacaseandpresentsacomprehensiveaccountofthegenerativeandoperativemechanismsunderlyingitsuseaswellasthecommunicativeeffectsitmayproduceorisintendedtoachieveinordertofullyrevealitsrichnessofmeaning,diversityoffunctionandcomplexityofuse,especiallyinsettingupanewviewpointtocomprehendtheliterarytexts.
1.1NeedfortheStudy
Ithasbeenthousandsofyearsforstudyingirony,whichcanbetracedbacktotheancientGreeks.AfterPlato,manyscholarsfromvariousstudyingfieldsanalyzedandexplainedthiskindoflanguagephenomenon—irony.Thestudyofironyfirstoriginatedinthefieldofrhetoric.Later,manyanalysesonironyappearedinthefieldsofsemantics,psychology,pragmaticsandespeciallycognitivepragmatics.Withthedevelopmentofpragmatics,manyascholarprecededdeepandtheoreticalstudiesonitsapplication,amongwhichGrice’sinterpretationofconversationalimplicature,Searle’sinsincerespeechacttheory,andLeech’spolitenesstheorywereofgreatsignificance.In1981,SperberandWilsonopenedthedoorintoanewworldofironycomprehension.TheyproposedtreatingironyasakindofimplicitechoicdissociativeusewithintheframeworkofRelevanceTheory,developingthestudyofironicutterancesintoacognitivefield.
AccordingtoSperberandWilson,oneofthequestionsthatshouldbekeptinmindinassessinganewapproachtohumancommunicationiswhetheritisrelevanttomorethanoneofthemanydisciplinesinvolvedinthestudyofhumancommunication,suchaslinguistics,pragmatics,literarystudies,andwhetheritcouldfosterfruitfulinteractionsamongthem.Sinceliteratureisdeemedasverbal"
ironyart"
(Halliday,1983:
viii),literarytextsprovidethescholaroflanguagewithatestinggroundforthemostadvancedtheoreticalmodels,abasisfortheapplicationoflinguistictheories,tobeverified,furtherimprovedandperfected.Byplacingtheargumentonthebasisoftherelevance-theoreticframeworkofverbalirony,andapplyingtheframeworktothestudyofironicutterancesinliterarydiscourses,thethesisattemptstoshowthefeasibilityofapplyingtherelevance-theoreticapproachtothestudyofverbalirony.Verbalironymaythusbetreatedasatestcase:
successorfailureinthisdomainshouldhaveimplicationsforourviewofutteranceinterpretationasawholeandmakefurthercontributionstothewiderrangeofapplicationofrelevancetheory.
Inaddition,noaccountofcommunicationingeneralwillbecompletewithoutanaccountofliteratureanditscontextualization,andnoaccountofliteraturewillbecompletewithoutanaccountofitsuseofcommunicationresourcegenerallyavailable.Althoughliterarytextsarecharacterizedbythemultiplicityofcommunicationsources(characters,authors,readers,etc.),theydonotfundamentallydistinguishfromanyothertypeofcommunicationintermsoftheinterpersonalinteraction.Thewritingandreadingofliterarytextscanbeseenasinteractivecommunicativeprocesses.Giventheintegrationoftheliteraryworkintoarelevance-theoreticframeworkofverbalirony,thestudywillbenefitthelinguisticanalysisofliteraturepreciselybecauseoftherelevance-theoreticconceptsofinterpretiveandechoicuse.Thesetermsallowustoexaminethesignificanceofauthorialdistancewithinanoverallaccountofcommunicativeprocesses,thusrelievingatleastthisrespectofliteratureofitsspecialstatusandrelatingittootherformsofindirectcommunicationsuchasverbalirony.Furthermore,therelevance-theoreticapproachtocontextproposesrulesforchoosingthemostapproachtocontextforpropositions.Therefore,ittouchesoncrucialquestionsforliterarytheory.Byapplyingtheimprovedrelevance-theoreticframeworkofverbalironytothestudyofironicutterancesinliterarytexts,thethesiswillmakemethodologicalproposalsforanalyzingverbalironyinliterarytext,contextandareathatconnectsthetwo,theseproposalwillcontributetogeneralpragmatictheoryofliterature.
1.2StructureofThesis
Thethesisconsistsofsevenchapters.Thepresentchapterisintendedasageneralintroductiontothewholeresearch.
Chapter2isaliteraturereview.Ithasasurveyof,andare-speculationaboutthesemantic,pragmatica
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