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1、SelectivityOfUnderstanding Abstract:Thispaperdiscussestheselectivefeatureofunderstanding.Theprocessofunderstandingisinnaturethatofconstructingmeaningandobtaininginformation,meanwhile,toconstructmeaningistointegratedifferentsignsintoatextbymeansofmetaphorandmetonymyandtona
2、turalizethemeaningofthetext,whichturnsouttobeaprocessofconstantselection.Inaddition,thecontextualfactorssuchasdifferentindividualsorgroupsanddifferentculturalbackgroundsmaketheunderstandingprocessselective.Theknowledgeoftheselectivefeatureofunderstandingplaysanimportantro
3、leintextreading,translationanddailycommunication,especiallyinterculturalcommunicationpractice.Keywords:understanding,selectivity,metaphorandmetonymy,naturalize-tion,context Introduction Inmodernsociety,communicationbecomesoneoftheim
4、portantpartsofpeople'slife,whetheritisdailycommunicationorinterculturalcommunication.Inthisprocess,understandingisdefinitelythemostimportantlink,fortheaimofcommunicationistounderstandeachother.Yetdifferentpeopleofdifferentages,sex,orwithdifferentsocialbackgroundsunderdiff
5、erentcontextsmayhavedifferentinterpretationstowardsthesametext,thatistosay,understand-ingisselective.Forexample,thesentence“今天太累啦!”(Sotiredtoday!) mayhavethefollowingfourdifferentinterpretationsunderdifferentcontextsbydifferentpeople: a.咱们回家吧。(Let'sgobackhome.) b.该睡
6、觉了。(It'stimeforbed.) c.你洗一下碗吧。(Couldyouwashthedishes?) d.今天不看书了。(Iwillnotdoanyreadingtoday.) Whydoesthishappen?Arethereanyreasonsunderlyingthesesuperficialphenomena?Theauthorofthispaperwillprovideastrongtheoreticalbasisforthesephenomena,giveasystematicexplanation
7、oftheselectivityofunderstandingandalsoraisepeople'sawarenessofitintextreading,translation,andcommunicationpractice. 1.Definingselectivityofunderstanding AccordingtoVerschueren(1999),theprocessofusingandunderstand-inglanguageisthatofconstantlymakingchoices,c
8、onsciouslyorunconsciously,forlanguage-internaland/orlanguage-externalreasons.Thesechoicescanbesi