语用分析在大学英语四六级听力中的应用_英语论文

The Application of Pragmatic Analysis to CET-4 & CET-6 Listening Comprehension Training 

摘要

含有会话含义的英语听力理解题对于大学生来说是一个难点，了格赖斯的合作原则和利奇的礼貌原则对于分析会话含义具有非常大的参考性和建设性。本文简要介绍了格莱斯的合作原则理论、利奇的礼貌原则理论，并收集了大学英语四六级听力理解中的短对话的语料库，试图针对违反合作原则的对话作出详细的解释并分析人们在交流时出于礼貌和面子的考虑，帮助学生在做题时理解会话含义以及知道如何应对。经研究，本论文发现含有会话含义的试题在大学英语四六级听力理解中的短对话中占约三分之一，在课堂上引入会话含义理论并提高学生的语用能力很有必要。希望本论文有助于大学英语听力教学并为英语教师备课提供借鉴。

关键词:合作原则   礼貌原则   会话含义   对话

Abstract

English listening comprehension containing conversational implicature is rather difficult for college students and Grice’s Cooperation Principle and Leech’s Politeness Principle are referential and constructive to the analysis of conversational implicature. This paper briefly introduces Grice’s Cooperation Principle and Leech’s Politeness Principle and collected the corpus of Section A of the listening comprehension in CET-4&CET-6. The aim of the paper is to make specific explanation for the conversation which violates the Cooperation Principle and analyses people’s communication in the consideration of politeness and help students understand conversational implicature when taking tests and know how to deal with it. From research, it is found that the questions containing conversational implicature account for nearly one third in the section A of the listening comprehension of CET-4&CET-6 respectively. So it is necessary for teachers to introduce the theory of conversational implicature in classroom instruction and improve student’s pragmatic competence. It is hoped that this paper is beneficial to the teaching of college English listening comprehension and provide advices for language teachers and students.

Keywords: Cooperation Principle   Politeness Principle   Conversational Implicature   Conversation