Conversational Implicature Generated by Observance and Flout of the Maxims in "Titanic"

Conversational implicature can be divided into two parts: generalized implicature and particularized implicature.The implicature can be generated through observance or flout of the cooperative principle,more specifically,the maxim of quantity,quality,relation and manner.The paper explained how the implicature generated by analysis of the movie "Titanic".     

美国手语语言独特性探究——以美国手语中的时间信息表达为例

北美聋人使用的美国手语作为人类语言之一有着与其他语言许多的共性,同时,作为一种独特的视觉空间语言,它也有着不同于有声语言的表达特点和语言特性。它不仅通过使用手势符号表词达意,还借助头部、面部表情和上身体态的变化辅助表达更为细腻的情感、语言和语法意义。美国手语中对时间信息的表达更是体现了其语言表达上的独特性。通过对美国手语时间信息表达方式较为系统的介绍和分析,探究其作为视觉空间语言所体现出的语言表达独特性。     

“I Said What?” Partner Familiarity,Resistance, and the Accuracy of Conversational Recall

We examined the influence of two structural parameters on the content and valence of conversational recall. 144 females had two conversations defined by relationship type (close friend or stranger) and partner resistance (resistance or none). Conversational recall statements were coded for accuracy of content (self, partner, or neutral) and valence (positive, negative, or neutral). Overall, respondents were less accurate in recalling the content of stranger conversations than friend exchanges, and when partners were agreeable compared to resistant. However, those who experienced little partner resistance more accurately recalled positively valenced information than respondents who encountered resistance. When partners resisted, friend interactions were recalled less accurately in terms of positivity, but more accurately for negative information, compared to the recall of stranger conversations.     

Correlates between communication apprehension and listening style preferences

Research suggests that initial impressions are important and set the tone for future interactions; however, little is known about which teacher communication behaviors create positive initial judgments by students. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among a set of teacher relational communication behaviors and students' early judgments about the future outcomes of the course. Specifically, students reported perceptions of their instructors' use of power, confirmation, nonverbal immediacy, and communication skills in the beginning of a semester and their predictions about future interactions with that instructor. Results indicated that teachers' use of coercive and legitimate power were negatively related to students' predicted outcome value (POV) judgments, whereas the use of reward, referent, and expert power, along with confirmation and communication skills, were positively correlated with students' POV judgments. Hierarchical regression further revealed unique relational message predictors of these judgments.     

Decoding Ability and Humor Production

Scholars have suggested that being “in tune” with others may be an important aspect of successful humor creation; however, few studies have specifically investigated this possibility. Thus, this study examined the relationship between decoding ability and humor orientation. Decoding ability was conceptualized as involving three communication constructs: conversational sensitivity, nonverbal sensitivity, and receiver apprehension. Consistent with predictions, results revealed positive relationships between (1) humor orientation and conversational sensitivity and (2) humor orientation and nonverbal sensitivity. Also consistent with predictions, a negative relationship was found between humor orientation and receiver apprehension. Further analysis indicated the three communication variables together accounted for 24% of the variance in humor orientation; only conversational sensitivity and receiver apprehension, however, accounted for unique variance. Overall, these findings suggest humor production may be related to the ways in which individuals attend to their social environments.     

汉语交际中话语暗含的语用学解释

话语暗含指的是暗含在话语之中的交际意图,是言语交际中的一种普遍现象,汉语交际也不例外。在三种有代表性的语用学理论中以关联理论对于话语暗含的解释最为全面和深入,解释力最强。话语暗含有等级之分,人们在交际中倾向于选择最高等级的话语暗含。     

会话附加语的作用及运用

作者通过对well,sortof　kindof ,youknow/yousee ,ofcourse ,Imean和oh ,aha ,ah ,dear,ok等常见的会话附加语的分析和说明 ,阐述了会话附加语的特征、语用意义以及使用会话附加语时应注意的几个问题。     

An Analysis of Verbal Humor in Friends from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

Friends is a classical situation comedy in America in which humorous dialogues abound. With the theoretical framework of Cooperative Principle, this thesis extracts typical dialogues in American situation comedy Friends as data and discusses the characters' violation of maxims of Cooperative Principle together with the derived humorous effect.     

视域融合 文本再生——阅读教学中师生本主体间性研究

对话视域下的阅读教学强调教学文本的对话性与生成性,这是一个师生本三元主体多重对话交流的过程。在阅读课堂教学中,师生本三主间性的对话机制涵括以下几种文本对话形式：师生与文本主体间性的对话（师本对话和生本对话）和师生与生生主体间性的对话（师生对话和生生对话）,并由此产生相应的对话文本。在对话教学过程中,通过激活师生的期待图式结构、掌握一定的对话策略,可望达到师生本三者的视域融合,最终形成新的对话生成文本,从而扩大原教学文本的内涵,拓展认知主体的认知空间。     

The Conversational Geography of Word-of-Mouth Communication and Marketing Practices

This study was a test of the utility of a diary-based methodology for revealing how word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing agents perceive their campaign and non-campaign-related WOM communication episodes. A modified version of the Iowa Communication Record, originally designed for presenting the “geography of everyday conversation,” was the base for the collection of 2,088 self-reports of the agents' WOM episodes. Data were subjected to a principal components factor analysis. The resulting factors—communication quality, value, impact, relational change, and conversational control—served to gauge differences attributable to the institutional nature of the WOM, sex of respondent and conversational partner, relationship type, and day of week.