封面
声明
目录
Abstract
摘要
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Aims and Significance
1.3 Thesis Construction
Chapter 2 Definition of Key Terms
2.1 Lexical Pragmatics
2.2 Pragmatic Enrichment
2.3 Lexical Narrowing
2.4 Lexical Broadening
2.5 Key Points of the Lexical Pragmatics
2.5.1 Lexical Pragmatics is Non-compositional
2.5.2 Lexical Pragmatics Crucially Involves Non-representational Means
2.5.3 Lexical Pragmatics Crucially Involves Economy Principles
2.5.4 Lexical Pragmatics Concerns with Conversational Implicatures
2.6 Coresense and Consense
Chapter 3 Literature Review
3.1 General View on the Studies of News Headlines
3.2 Studies on News Headlines Abroad
3.2.1 Van Dijk’s Study
3.2.2 E. Robert’s Study
3.2.3 Elly Ifantifou’s Study
3.3 Studies of News Headlines at Home
Chapter 4 Theoretical Framework
4.1 Relevance Theory
4.1.1 The Optimal Relevance
4.1.2 Contextual Choice and Contextual Effects
4.1.3 The Cognitive Environment
4.2 The Relevance-theoretic Approach
4.3 A Proposed Resolution for Lexical Pragmatic Enrichment
4.3.1 The Activation of the Cognitive Context
4.3.2 The Activation of the Concept
4.3.3 The Encyclopedic Inference
4.3.4 The Choice of the Intended Referent
4.3.5 The Construction of the New Context
4.4 Summary
Chapter 5 Research Design
5.1 Research Questions
5.2 Research Methods
5.3 Data Collection
5.4 Research Procedure
5.4.1 The Lexicon’s Forms
5.4.2 Coresense and Consense Applied in English News Headlines
5.4.3 Functions of Lexical Pragmatic Enrichment between the Explicit Adjectives and It
5.4.4 Pragmatic Relations between Adjectives and Its Enriched Meanings
Chapter 6 Discussion
6.1 Semantic Underspecification
6.2 Pragmatic Anomaly
6.3 Coresense Prompting Resolution
6.3.1 The First Resolution Principle
6.4 Consense Prompting Resolution
6.4.1 The Second Resolution Principle
6.5 Summary
Chapter 7 Conclusion
7.1 Conclusion
7.2 Suggestions for Further Study
7.3 Limitations
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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