摘要
反语作为一种普遍使用的修辞格,引起了认知心理学家和语言学家的关注。反语研究的角度从传统的修辞学和美学转向了认知心理学和语用学的探究。近年来,语言学家研究的热点主要是在反语的理解上。调查发现,心理学研究文献中的反差效应与同化效应能够预测反语主要语用功能的语用效力,即说话人表达的谴责程度、幽默程度、惊讶程度、赞美程度以及自我保护程度。这种反差与同化效应产生于说话人的话语内容与听话人对现实语境理解的对比中。
Verbal irony, as a widely used figure of speech, has received considerable attention from cognitive psychologists and linguists. The traditional study of verbal irony has been shifted from rhetorical and aesthetical approaches to current cognitive and pragmatic investigation. In recent years, most of the interest has been directed at the interpretation of verbal irony. This paper explores the cognitive mechanism that directly influences the interpretation of pragmatic functions of verbal irony. It is found that the pattern of contrast versus assimilation effects documented in many psychological research literatures enables prediction of the effects of some major pragmatic functions of verbal irony, namely the degree to which a speaker is perceived as being condemning, humorous, surprised, praising and selfprotective. This pattern of perceptual contrast versus assimilation effects is realized through the contrast between the semantic meaning of an ironic comment and the way in which the real situation that is commented upon is perceived.
出处
《四川外语学院学报》
2003年第5期95-98,共4页
Journal of Sichuan International Studies University
关键词
反语
反差效应
同化效应
语用功能
verbal irony
contrast effects
assimilation effects
pragmatic functions
