摘要
One of the politeness strategies,which has recently been observed,is the use of a semantically weak scalar expression to implicate the meaning of one or more of its stronger alternatives in a face-threatening context-a speech situation in which a loss of face can potentially be induced for the addressee,the speaker or both-out of politeness concerns.I call this type of marked scalar implicatures‘non-canonical scalar implicatures’.This article provides an informed discussion of the linguistic phenomenon in a few languages and presents a new analysis of it within the neo-Gricean pragmatic framework.
One of the politeness strategies, which has recently been observed, is the use of a semantically weak scalar expression to implicate the meaning of one or more of its stronger alternatives in a face-threatening context-a speech situation in which a loss of face can potentially be induced for the addressee, the speaker or both-out of politeness concerns. I call this type of marked scalar implicatures ‘non-canonical scalar implicatures’. This article provides an informed discussion of the linguistic phenomenon in a few languages and presents a new analysis of it within the neo-Gricean pragmatic framework.
作者
黄衍
Yan HUANG(School of Cultures,Languages and Linguistics,University of Auckland,Private Bag 92019,Auckland,New Zealand)
出处
《外语教学与研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2020年第1期25-39,共15页
Foreign Language Teaching and Research
