【作者】 方伟琴；

【导师】 严世清；

【作者基本信息】 苏州大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2004， 硕士

【摘要】 反语是言语交际中一种常见的语言现象。然而人们对反语理论的研究远远落后于反语运用的实际情况。自亚里斯多德以来，比之对隐喻的研究，人们对反语的研究很少。事实上，反语与隐喻一样在日常生活中无处不在。反语同样构成了人类意识的部分基础，构成了我们的经验。直到二十世纪七十年代，反语才成为心理学家、语言学家以及哲学家们的研究对象。他们提出了不同的反语研究方法。 该文首先概述两种很有影响的反语研究方法：(传统)语用模式和回应理论。然后对两种理论在处理反语时都涉及的一些重要概念进行对比分析。在此基础上得出结论：以关联理论为基础的回应理论比传统的语用反语理论更具解释力，能用于分析更多的反语实例。 最后，本文尝试用回应理论来分析鲁迅的第一篇现代短文—《狂人日记》中的反语现象。结果证明回应理论可以用来分析中国的文学作品(反讽作品)。这样的分析使我们读者深刻地剖析作品从而到达深切的理解。更多还原

【Abstract】 Irony is a common linguistic phenomenon in verbal communication. However, compared with the frequent and wide use of irony, the theoretical study of irony lagged behind. Since Aristotle, more research has been done on metaphor than on irony. As a matter of fact, irony, just like metaphor, pervades our daily life. It can also be taken as a fundamental aspect of our conceptual system. It was not until the 1970s that irony finally became a focus approached by psychologists, linguists, and philosophers, with different approaches to irony being proposed..This paper first sketches out two influential approaches: the pragmatic model and the echoic interpretation theory. Then a comparative study is made of the two approaches. The points compared are the key notions involved in interpreting communication (irony, in this particular paper). From the comparison, we can see that in many aspects the relevance-based echoic theory seems more promising than the traditional pragmatic account. An attempt is made to analyze the cases of irony occurring in a Chinese literary work-Lu Xun’s A Madman’s Diary within the framework of the echoic interpretation theory. The application of the echoic theory to the analysis of the particular Chinese literary work helps readers to reach the depth of understanding and serves as a good start for further research on some other literary works, both English and Chinese.更多还原