商务英语信函写作中的关联与模糊

关联理论认为，语言交际是个明示推理过程，发话人应该提供尽可能关联的信息，使听话人能够以最小的处理努力去理解发话人的含义，达到最佳的语境效果。本文运用关联理论首先解释了商务英语信函中的语言模糊现象，然后以真实的商务信函为语料，探讨了写信人如何使用模糊语言明示话语信息，实现最佳关联，以准确表达交际意图，达到交际目的。

Relevance and Vagueness in Business English Correspondence

Relevance Theory proposes that communication is an ostensive-inferential process and the communicator, therefore, should provide the most relevant information so that the audience can understand the communicator's intention with the least processing effort.Using a relevance theoretical framework of analysis, the paper first elaborates the application of vagueness in business correspondences and then explores how, in the real business correspondences, vague expressions allow a writer to convey the communicat...