Contextual Adaptability of English Modal Devices 论英语情态手段的语境顺应性

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1、分类号HHO学校代码10590UDC密级公开深圳大学硕士学位论文论英语情态手段的语境顺应性陈平学科门类文学专业名称外国语言学及应用语言学学院（系、所）外国语学院指导教师刘英凯教授、王家钺博士ContextualAdaptabilityofEnglishModalDevicesAbstractModalityhaslongbeentheinterestofresearchersinlinguisticswhereseveralapproachessuchastraditionalgrammar,semanticsandpragmatics,cognitivelinguisticsand

2、systemic-functionalgrammarhavebeenadopted.Howeverthethesisisadifferentapproachtomodalitywhichanalyzestheuseofmodalityinlinguisticcommunicationfromapragmaticperspective.ThetheoreticalbasisisVerschuren’sAdaptationtheory,whichdependsonageneralhypothesisthattheprocessofusinglanguageconsistsofcontin

3、uousmakingoflinguisticchoices,consciouslyorunconsciously,forlanguageinternalorlanguageexternalreasons.Theadaptationtheorybringsaboutthefollowingimplicationsforourstudyofmodalityfromapragmaticperspective:(1)TheuseofEnglishmodalityisaprocessofchoicemaking;(2)Thechoiceofaparticularmodaldeviceisare

4、sultofdynamiccontextualadaptation.(3)Modalchoicesareresultsofcontextualnegotiationandimplydifferentdegreesofmetapragmaticawareness.Thefocusofthisthesisisontheanalysisofinteradaptabilityofmodaldevicesandcontextualcorrelateswhilethedynamicnatureoftheadaptationandthemetapragmaticawarenessinvolvedi

5、ntheprocessofmeaningfulfunctioningarealsoanalyzedinthehopeofrevealingtheessenceoftheuseofmodalityinactualcommunication.Themethodwetakeinthepresentstudyisprimarilyaqualitativeone,andthedatacollectedincludenotonlywrittenbutalsospokendiscourses,takingintoconsiderationoftheeffectofnaturallanguageon

6、ourresearch.Insum,wehaveintegratedthesocial,culturalandcognitivefactorstoexplorethecontextualcorrelatestowhichthemodaldevicesadapt,andconductedageneralfunctionalapproach---thepragmaticperspectivetoEnglishmodality.WehopethattheanalysisoftheadaptabilityofEnglishmodaldevicesfromtheperspectiveofada

7、ptationtheorycandeepenourunderstandingofthislinguisticphenomenon.Keyword：ContextualAdaptability;EnglishModalDevicesContextualAdaptabilityofEnglishModalDevices中中中中情态反映说话人对所说内容的态度与看法，体现了说话人话语的主观性，由于情态对语言的这种特殊作用，情态的研究长期受到哲学家，逻辑学家等的关注