声明
摘要
Abstract
Table of Contents
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Research Objectives and Significance
1.3 Structure of this Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Studies on Alice Series Novels at Home and Abroad
2.2 Studies on Application of Relevance Theory at Home and Abroad
2.3 Studies on Irrelevant and Absurd Exchanges
2.4 The Gaps between Previous Studies and this Thesis
Chapter Three Theoretical Background
3.1 Basic Notions in Relevance Theory
3.1.1 Conditions for relevance—contextual effects
3.1.2 Degrees of relevance:effect and effort
3.1.3 Achoice of context
3.1.4 The principle of relevance
3.1.5 Explicatures and implicatures
3.2 Analysis Framework for Irrelevant and Absurd Exchanges
3.2.1 Sperber and Wilson’s view on irrelevant communication
3.2.2 He Ziran’s view on irrelevant and absurd communication
3.2.3 Identification of irrelevant and absurd exchanges in this thesis
Chapter Four Analysis of Absurd Exchanges in Alice Series Novels in the Level of Communicative Contents
4.1 Analysis of Absurd Exchanges in Alice Series Novels in the Level of Explicature
4.1.1 Phonetic ambiguity
4.1.2 Lexical ambiguity
4.1.3 Referent mismatch
4.1.4 Referent ambiguity
4.1.5 Mismatch in semantic width
4.2 Analysis of Absurd Exchanges in Alice Series Novels in the Level of Implicature
4.2.1 Logical absurdity
4.2.2 Presupposition clash
Chapter Five Analysis of Absurd Exchanges in Alice Series Novels due to Non-cooperative Way of Communication
5.1 Two Party Communication
5.2 Multiparty Communication
5.3 Summary
Chapter Six Conclusion
6.1 Findings of this Thesis
6.2 Implications of the Findings
6.3 Limitations of this Thesis and Suggestions
Acknowledgments
References