用合作原则和关联理论分析欧亨利短篇小说对话的会话含义英语论文(3)

摘要

欧·亨利是世界三大短篇小说巨匠之一。长期以来，他的小说之所以受到读者的喜爱和作品中人物的幽默的言语和富有特色的下层人物特点密不可分。从文学方面对欧·亨利短篇小说进行分析的研究已经有很多。本文尝试从语用学角度对欧·亨利的短篇小说进行分析。

本文回顾了国内外语用理论用于文学作品研究的先例，得出用语用学研究文学语言的有效性。因此，本文主要从语用学角度运用合作原则和关联理论分析欧·亨利的短篇小说中的会话含义。本文对所选用的两个原则进行了简要的论述，为文中的对话分析提供了理论支持。本文从所选的四篇短文中挑选了十个典型的人物对话，利用以上理论对会话含义的产生以及其表现的人物特点进行了详细的分析。

综上所述，本文通过对所选的四篇短篇小说中的对话运用合作原则和关联理论进行分析，不仅为读者提供了理解欧·亨利短篇小说的新视角,同时也拓展了合作原则和关联理论的研究范围。

关键词：会话含义欧·亨利短篇小说合作原则关联理论

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Abstract in English

O? Henry is one of world's three short story masters. For a long time, readers like his short stories attributing to humorous conversations of the characters and especially good qualities of the low class people. There are many researches on the short stories of O? Henry, which study them from the angle of literature analysis. However, this thesis tries to provide an analysis of O? Henry?s short stories from a pragmatic perspective.

This thesis reviews the former research of using pragmatics to analyze the literature works, which shows the validity of using pragmatics to study literature works. Therefore，this thesis mainly research the conversational implicature of the short story of O? Henry by cooperative principle and relevance theory. This thesis firstly gives brief introductions of the two main theories, which provides theory supportfor the whole thesis. This thesis selects ten typical conversations of characters in four short stories of O? Henry. By using the two theoriesabove, this thesis gives a detailed analysis on the production of the conversational implicature as well as the features of characters.

All in all, this thesis?s analysis of the conversational implicature of the chosen stories by the cooperative principle and the relevance theory not only provides a new view to understand the short stories of O? Henry, but also broadens the research scopes of the cooperative principle and the relevance theory.

Key words: Conversational Implicature O? Henry?s Short Stories

Cooperative Principle Relevance Theory

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction ............................................. 错误！未定义书签。

1.1 Research background ...................................................... 错误！未定义书签。 1.2 Significance of the research ............................................ 错误！未定义书签。 1.3 The thesis?s composition ................................................. 错误！未定义书签。

Chapter 2 Literature review ..................................... 错误！未定义书签。

2.1 Literature analysis ........................................................... 错误！未定义书签。 2.2 Reviews of pragmatics theories used in the literature .... 错误！未定义书签。

2.2.1 Review of the cooperative principle used in the literature错误！未定义书签。

2.2.2 Review of the relevance theory used in the literature错误！未定义书签。

Chapter 3 Pragmatics theories ................................. 错误！未定义书签。

3.1 Cooperative principle ...................................................... 错误！未定义书签。

3.1.1 Grice?s cooperative principle ................................ 错误！未定义书签。 3.1.2 The four maxims of cooperative principle ............ 错误！未定义书签。 3.1.3 Flouting the maxims ............................................. 错误！未定义书签。 3.2 Relevance theory ............................................................. 错误！未定义书签。

3.2.1 The ostensive-inferential communication model .. 错误！未定义书签。 3.2.2 The context in the relevance theory ...................... 错误！未定义书签。 3.2.3 Optimal relevance and successful communication错误！未定义书签。

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