【作者】 李春青；

【导师】 叶慧君；

【作者基本信息】 河北大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2010， 硕士

【摘要】 模糊性是人类自然语言的固有属性。由于客观世界本身的模糊特性,人类主观认知能力的局限性,反映主观作用于客观的语言必然具有模糊性。模糊语言现象广泛存在于人类日常生活的诸多方面。人类对模糊现象的关注早有历史,然而对模糊语言现象的专门研究仅仅几十年。模糊语言作为一门学科产生并发展始于美国数控和工程专家札德教授的模糊集合论的诞生。模糊集合论与现代语言学相结合产生了模糊语言学。模糊限制语是模糊语言中最典型最活跃的组成部分,广泛存在于口语交际和书面文本中,在言语交际中发挥着重要作用。从20世纪70年代,国外学者开始对模糊限制语言现象进行多方面的探索和研究,但国内对模糊限制语的认识和研究相对较少。模糊限制语最初作为语言学领域的术语被提出是属于语义学范畴概念。近年来随着对模糊限制语作用的逐步深入认识,模糊限制语在语用学领域的研究也逐渐展开。基于以上原因,作者在前人研究的基础上,对模糊限制语的语用功能进行了系统和深入的分析,以期能提供对模糊限制语这一语言现象更进一步的认识和理解。本文内容大致如下：第一章介绍了本论文的研究背景和研究意义及目标。第二章是文献综述部分,阐释了模糊的概念和模糊限制语的内涵,较详细介绍了国内外学者对模糊限制语的研究及模糊限制语的研究现状。第三章介绍了本论文所依托的理论框架,主要是合作原则和礼貌原则以及会话含意理论和面子威胁理论。第四章是本论文的主体部分,以英语和汉语的口语、书面语为语料,结合合作原则、会话含意理论、礼貌原则,以及威胁面子行为理论,对模糊限制语进行语用功能分析,全面总结了模糊限制语的各种语用功能,并进一步挖掘语境与模糊限制语的关系,从而揭示模糊限制语在实际应用中的重要意义和应用价值。最后一章是结论部分,总结了本论文研究的主要成果和发现,同时指出了该论文存在的不足和在以后的研究中值得关注的问题。更多还原

【Abstract】 Fuzziness is one of the essential features of natural languages. Language as an inevitable outcome of the subjective acting on the objective has fuzzy characteristic; that is due to the fuzzy characteristic of the objective world and the limitation of human cognitive competence. The phenomena of fuzzy language widely exist in people’s daily life. People have perceived fuzzy phenomena for a long time, while focused on the special research of fuzzy language for only several decades. The discipline of fuzzy language was initiated with the Fuzzy set theory, which was proposed by Zadeh a professor in America, and then the combination of the Fuzzy set theory and the modern linguistics generated fuzzy linguistics. Among the components of fuzzy language, hedges are one of the most typical and active ones that widely exist in verbal and written communication, playing an important role in communication.Since the 1970s, some scholars abroad have begun to explore hedges in many aspects, while the research on hedges is relatively rare at home. Hedge a linguistic term is proposed originally as a semantic concept, however, with the further study, hedges have gradually developed from the field of semantics to pragmatics. Therefore, the writer has given a deep analysis of hedges and mainly explored the pragmatic functions of hedges based on the former research findings aiming to present a full and deep understanding of hedges. Moreover, the thesis also intends to provide some suggestions for the study of this field.The structure of this thesis is as follows:Chapter 1 mainly introduces the background and purpose of this thesis and its significance. Chapter 2 is the literature review. Firstly the thesis reviews the study of concept of fuzziness, connotation of hedges and then introduces past studies in domestic and abroad. Subsequently Chapter 3 focuses on the theoretical framework of the thesis and introduces some important pragmatic principles, containing Co-operative principle, Politeness principle, FTAs theory and Conversational implicature. Chapter 4 is the main body of this thesis, in which we take verbal and written language as corpus and make an analysis of hedges based on those pragmatic principles. The writer studies the pragmatic functions of hedges and deeply explores the relationship between hedges and contexts to explore the significance and application value of hedges. Chapter 5 is the conclusion part in which major findings of this research are presented. Furthermore, limitations and suggestions are also pointed out for further research.更多还原