摘要:本文是英语语言学论文,本文以维索尔伦的语言顺应理论和斯珀波及威尔逊的关联理论为理论框架,以《杨澜访谈录》、《鲁豫有约》和《实话实说》这三个国内著名的访谈节目为语料来源,对会话信息过量现象的语用功能及其生成和理解过程进行全面系统分析。
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
1.1 Object of the Study
Verbal communication conveys information in order to cause changes in thephysical, mental, or social world. Provided that cooperation is seen as a universalprinciple, interlocutors should communicate truthfully, adequately, relevantly andbriefly according to the Cooperative Principle proposed by Grice (1975). However,violating the maxim of quality, quantity, relevance or manner often crops up in dailyconversation. The present
thesis especially lays emphasis on the quantity of informationprovided in the process of natural communication. To be specific, the object of thisstudy focuses on the cases of being overinformative, which has received far lessattention in the previous studies. Both the initiator and the responder in conversationoften supply some “extra or added information” which seems to be meaningless literallyand unnecessary or more than required to the current exchange in line with therequirement of the quantity maxim. However, from the pragmatic and cognitiveperspective, it is well worth noting that the extra information, which is often applied tobe a communicative
strategy, is not redundant or unnecessary, and its generation isusually triggered by certain cognitive and pragmatic factors. The present study attemptsto study the phenomenon of extra or added information in conversation from apragmatic perspective. According to Chen Xinren, interactional overinformativeness( IO for short) refers to “the act of providing propositional non-natural informationapart from the supply of natural information in conversational exchanges” (Chen, 2004,pp. 132-133). So far, some scholars have studied the phenomenon ofoverinformativeness from different perspectives, which will be discussed in ChapterTwo.The interactional overinformativeness is often characterized as literally redundantor unnecessary in the light of directly meeting the requirements of the speaker’squestion. However, as a useful communicative strategy, it is indispensable andcontributes a lot to the success of the conversation.
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1.2 Significance of the Study
The previous studies have made lots of contributions to the understanding of theprovision of added information from different perspectives whether the term IO is usedor not. However, some problems still stay unsolved or untouched in the existing studies.Firstly, some scholars studied the phenomenon of IO from the perspective of semantics,but they did not realize that the IO was derived from the process of language use. Thus,it is supposed to be studied from the pragmatic perspective. Secondly, in some previousresearch, the data were fabricated so that their findings are inevitably not fullyconvincing. Thirdly, few studies explored the internal motivations or the generation ofIO and its functions. Therefore, more comprehensive study is needed. Fourthly, theinterpretation of IO is still hardly touched in the existing research. The verbalcommunication is a constant process of language generation and interpretation, andeach side is essential and indispensable, otherwise the successful communication willbe never achieved. As is known to all, language interpretation is concerned with thecognition of human beings, so the phenomenon of IO also needs studying from theperspective of cognition.
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Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
The present chapter attempts to review
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