脑筋急转弯的关联诠释

脑筋急转弯是一种人为创作的以问答形式出现的极具娱乐性的思维游戏和语言游戏。但从根本上来说，脑筋急转弯是一种特殊的言语交际形式，是一种语言游戏。关联理论对脑筋急转弯的解读的过程就是脑筋急转弯的受众不断推翻已有的旧信息构建新信息的认知过程；脑筋急转弯的答案是最大关联和最佳关联碰撞产生的结果，其娱乐性源于最大关联和最佳关联之间的一种反差效应。

Interpretation about Brain-twisters in the Perspective of Relevance Theory

Brain - twisters is a kind of thought and language game with amusement quality, which is a kind of artificial creations, appearing with the form of question and answer. However, the author believe, fundamentally, brain-twisters is a special form of verbal communication, which is a language game. An interpretation of brain-twisters in the perspective of relevance theory is a cognitive process in which the audience has continuosly overthrown the old information and constructed new information;the key to a brain-twister is the result of collision between the maximal relevance and optimal relevance, whose amusement is the contrast effects between the maximal relevance and optimal relevance.