【作者】 曹璐萍；

【导师】 高晓芳；

【作者基本信息】 华中师范大学 ， 外国语言学及应用语言学， 2009， 硕士

【摘要】 滑头语是一种故意含糊其辞的或甚至是蓄意误导的用语,它们被用来避免直接陈述,规避责任。这一概念来源于黄鼠狼偷吃蛋的习惯。黄鼠狼偷吃蛋时,会先在蛋上咬出个小洞,然后将其中内容舔出,只留下空壳。结果看似完整的蛋,其实里面已是空空如也。同样,滑头语能将话语中的意思偷偷舔出,其实已经是毫无意义了。滑头语的这一功能似乎与政治话语的目的一拍即合。政治话语不像文学语言那样浪漫,也不像法律语言那样严谨,政治话语为目的而生。施加影响、掩饰真相或推卸责任,政治话语的这些目的都能由滑头语来实现。本文试图运用顺应—关联模式,分析政治话语中的滑头语的产生、识别和理解过程。目的是通过这一政治话语研究的新视角,帮助人们深入和正确理解政治话语,并验证顺应—关联模式的解释力。查阅文献发现,这一模式已被运用于分析广告语言、外交语言和跨文化交际等方面。而由于滑头语这一概念尚未引起研究者,尤其是国内研究者的广泛关注,运用顺应—关联模式分析政治话语中的滑头语的研究尚未有成果问世,而这恰是本文的创新点。由于大多数研究者对滑头语还很陌生,本文首先详细全面地介绍并概括了“滑头语”一词的来源、定义以及语言实现方式。然后对本文的理论框架顺应—关联模式的产生和内容进行了说明,并认为,这一模式能更好的从话语的产生和理解两方面阐释滑头语。在接下来的分析部分中,作者从Don Watson所著的滑头语词典中选出运用在政治话语的例子,并运用顺应—关联模式对它们的产生、识别和理解过程进行分析并得出结论。这一分析同时也证明了顺应—关联模式对滑头语的解释力。更多还原

【Abstract】 Weaseling is the language use that is equivocal or deliberately ambiguous or misleading in order to evade or retreat from a direct or forthright responsibility. This derives from the way weasels eat the eggs which they find in the nest of other animals. First they make a hole, then suck out the substance and leave the shell in the nest. An egg that a weasel has sucked will look intact to the casual observer, while actually being empty. Similarly, words, phrases or sentence patterns that turn out to be empty upon analysis are known as "weaselings".This function of weaseling perfectly fits in with the intentions of political discourse. Unlike the romantic literature and the rigid law discourse, political discourse is produced for its intentions, and weaselings can achieve all these intensions of political discourse as imposing influence, covering fact or evading responsibility.The present thesis tries to use Adaptation-Relevance Model to analyze the production, identification and interpretation of the weaseling in political discourse. Its objective is to help people have a more insightful and critical understanding of political discourse and to verify the explanatory power of Adaptation-Relevance Model. After consulting the literature related to weaseling, it is found that this model has been used to analyze the advertising, diplomatic language and cross-cultural communication, but not political discourse. Moreover, because researchers, especially Chinese researchers haven’t pay enough attention to "weaseling", there has been no research on weaseling in political discourse using the Adaptation-Relevance Model, which is just the novelty of this thesis.Since the notion "weaseling" is not so familiar to most of the researchers, the author first makes an overall introduction to its origin, definition and linguistic means. Then the author introduces the formation and content of the theoretical framework of this thesis, i.e. Adaptation-Relevance Model, which is regarded as a better model to analyse the weaseling from both its production and interpretation. The following part of the thesis is devoted to the analysis of the weaselings which are selected from Don Watson’s book Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words. The production, identification and interpretation of these weaselings are analyzed and some conclusions are made. The analysis also verifies the model’s explanatory power towards weaseling.更多还原