关联理论视角下《唐顿庄园（第一季）》中委婉语的认知语用研究

发布时间：2018-06-24 05:00

本文选题：委婉语 + 关联理论　；参考：《安徽大学》2017年硕士论文

【摘要】：委婉语是说话人间接地表达个人思想感情时使用的一种特殊的语言表达方式。英语委婉语不仅包括某些词语、短语和句子;同时还包括某些肢体语言或特定情境下人们相互沟通使用的特殊形式。英语委婉语可以帮助说话人或者听话人掩饰某种不快或糟糕的事实,还可以帮助人们在人际沟通中保留面子,避免尴尬。因此,委婉语是一种非常重要的人际沟通策略,常见于人们的日常社会活动中。英语委婉语是帮助人们协调人际关系的一大重要语言手段,且委婉语的使用同样可以帮助人们改善沟通效果,令对话双方保持和谐的人际关系。作为英语语言中的一大重要部分,委婉语一直受研究者的关注。语言学家已经从不同角度出发研究了委婉语,包括词汇学、句法学、语义学、语用学、社会语言学、认知语言学等,并取得了丰富的研究成果。同时,这些研究还为未来的委婉语研究奠定了一定基础。根据关联理论,本文设定以下研究问题:说话人怎样说出委婉语?听话人如何理解委婉语?导致委婉表达失败的因素是什么?本文作者采用个案研究,选定英剧《唐顿庄园(第一季)》中的委婉语作为研究对象。在关联理论的指导下,从说话人和听话人的角度,对委婉语做更深层次的分析和解释。研究发现,在委婉语表达中,说话人通过寻找最佳关联和语境作用下的相关性,创造可替代性的相关;在委婉语理解中,听话人通过发现关联前提和定位关联结论,理解委婉语;造成委婉语交际失败的原因主要有两点:一是不确定的认知环境,二是不能建立相关的关联。在关联理论框架下研究《唐顿庄园(第一季)》中的委婉语具有重要意义。首先,可以进一步丰富委婉语的研究成果;其次,可以进一步扩大关联理论的应用范围;再次,可以帮助人们更好地理解《唐顿庄园(第一季)》;另外,还可以为电视戏剧研究提供新的参考。
[Abstract]:Euphemism is a special way of expressing one's thoughts and feelings indirectly. English euphemism includes not only some words, phrases and sentences, but also some body language or special forms of communication used by people in specific situations. English euphemism can help the speaker or hearer to conceal some unpleasant or bad facts, but also help people save face in interpersonal communication and avoid embarrassment. Therefore, euphemism is a very important interpersonal communication strategy, which is often used in people's daily social activities. English euphemism is an important language means to help people to coordinate their interpersonal relationship, and the use of euphemism can also help people to improve the communication effect and maintain a harmonious interpersonal relationship between the two sides of the dialogue. As an important part of English language, euphemism has always been concerned by researchers. Linguists have studied euphemism from different perspectives, including lexicology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics and so on. At the same time, these studies also lay a foundation for the future study of euphemism. According to relevance theory, this paper sets out the following research questions: how can the speaker say euphemism? How do hearers understand euphemism? What are the factors that lead to the failure of euphemism? The author chooses the euphemism in Downton Abbey (season 1) as a case study. Under the guidance of relevance theory, euphemism is further analyzed and explained from the perspective of speaker and hearer. The study found that in euphemism expression, the speaker creates substitutable relevance by looking for the best relevance and contextual relevance, while in euphemism understanding, hearers find relevance premises and locate relevance conclusions. There are two main reasons for the failure of euphemism communication: one is the uncertain cognitive environment and the other is the failure to establish the correlation. It is important to study the euphemism in Downton Abbey (first season) under the framework of relevance theory. First, it can further enrich the research results of euphemism; secondly, it can further expand the application of relevance theory; thirdly, it can help people understand Downton Abbey (season 1) better; in addition, It can also provide a new reference for TV drama research.
【学位授予单位】：安徽大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2017
【分类号】：H313

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