认知语境与反语阐释

认知语境是人类从认知科学的角度对语境的形成与功能机制所作出的解释,听话人通过认知语境能够识别并阐释反语,在反语交际过程中认知语境承担着制约和解释功能,其制约功能主要是指认知语境对说话人使用反语和听话人理解反语的制约,主要体现为表达形式和意义选择两方面,其解释功能主要体现为认知语境使词汇意义具体化,认知者通过认知语境推理可以得知反语说话人通过反语想要表达的意向。

Cognitive Context and Irony Interpretation

Cognitive context is the explanation of formations and functional mechanisms of context from the perspective of cognitive science.Hearers can identify and illustrate irony by the use of cognitive context.In the process of irony communication cognitive context undertakes both confinement and illustration functions.Its confinement function,which is mainly embodied in expression forms and choices of meanings,refers to cognitive context’s confinement to speakers’use of irony and hearers’understanding of irony.Its illustration function mainly refers to the fact that cognitive context specifies the meanings of the vocabulary and on the basis of cognitive context perceivers can infer irony speakers’intentions by the means of irony.