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摘要刻意曲解是言语交际中一种特殊的语用策略。虽然听话者能完全正确地理解说话者的意图，但是却利用特殊的语言环境和说话者含糊的表达，通过曲解说话者话语意图，以达到某种目的的语用行为。本文以语用学理论和原则为基础，即Brown和Levinson的面子理论，Leech的礼貌原则，对刻意曲解进行语用分析。这些理论构筑了刻意曲解的语用机制。文章以大量生活中的会话实例为语料、通过定性研究详细地分析了刻意曲解的实现方式和语用效应。在日常交际中，刻意曲解常常是未来文护面子、表示礼貌、避免尴尬、避免受辱或作出不利于自己的推理。本文旨在研究刻意曲解现象的具体表现和语用功能。它将有助于指导日常交际中的语言活动，能为人们正确使用刻意曲解来达到交际目的提供准则。21980
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毕业论文关键词: 刻意曲解；语用动机；语用功能
Abstract Deliberate misinterpretation (DMI for short) is a special pragmatic strategy in verbal communication. Although the hearer correctly and completely understands the intended meaning of the speaker, deliberately distorts the speaker’s original meaning by making use of a special context or the ambiguous expressions in the speaker’s utterances. By doing this, the hearer achieves his own communicative goals. The present paper based on some major pragmatic theories and principles, i.e., Brown & Levinson’s Face Theory, Leech’s Politeness Principle. These theories constitute the pragmatic apparatuses of DMI. The realization ways and pragmatic effects of DMI are analyzed in detail through qualitative study with many daily conversational such as data base. In verbal communication, the pragmatic strategy of DMI is often used for the purposes of saving face, showing politeness, avoiding embarrassment, avoiding getting humiliation or getting disadvantageous inference. The present paper is aimed at concrete expressions and pragmatic functions of DMI. It will help direct our daily communications and provide guidelines for people on how to appropriately employ DMI to fulfill their communicative intentions..
Key words: deliberate misinterpretation; pragmatic motivations; pragmatic functions
A Pragmatic Analysis of Deliberate Misinterpretation
Contents
摘 要..….i
Abstract…...ii
I. Introduction…..…1
II. Pragmatic Apparatuses for Deliberate Misinterpretation2
2.1 Brown & Levinson’s Face Theory…2
2.2 Leech’s Politeness Principle…3
III. Pragmatic Motivations for Deliberate Misinterpretation5
3.1 To Save Face…5
3.2 To Avoid Embarrassment6
3.3 To Show Politeness7
3.4 To Refuse Request…8
3.5 To Create Humour…9
3.6 To Avoid Conflict…9
IV. Conclusion.…10
Bibliography13
Acknowledgements …14
Ⅰ. Introduction
Deliberate Misinterpretation (DMI for short) is a marked pragmatic phenomenon happening between two interlocutors in communication, in which the speaker’s communicative intention is factually understood but deliberately distorted for some pragmatic motivations. The pragmatic study of DMI is an effective means of interpreting DMI. It will help direct our daily communications and provide guidelines for people on how to appropriately employ DMI to fulfill their communicative intentions and ensure the smooth communication. For example,
(Scene: two married couples see two young lovers kissing nearby when they are walking in a park.)
Wife: Why don’t you do that?
Husband: Daring, I haven’t got to know that girl yet.
In this conversation, the husband deliberately misinterprets the deixis “that” used by her wife. Obviously, what the wife wants to convey is that she wants her husband to kiss her like the two younger instead of kissing that girl. The indeterminacy of the deixis, “that”, provides a chance for her husband to misinterpret her meaning in order to create a humorous atmosphere.