Indefiniteness Of The Denotational Information

Study the denotation in the speech act, we think denotation is a relationship between the mode of linguistic expressions. And recognized object, also a acting process. The denotational information passing in the speech act, have different precision according different denotation means used by speakers. At the same time, types of speech act, discourse intention of the speakers and the recognition level to the denotation object will influence denotational information by two sides.Chapter 1, We make the introduction of the basic theories about denotation. First, make a new definition for denotation, emphasize its active features and the linguistic expressions. Then make a deep explanation of the meaning of denotation, we conclude, denotation not only a relationship but also an act process. At last, discuss the operational process of denotation base on different linguistic expressions.Chapter 2, independence denotation speech act and adhere denotation speech act, illuminate the latter the emphases of this research. Then discuss the indefiniteness of the denotational information passed by speaker in different denotation types. What's more, we make a new sequencing from the view of indefiniteness. Then, we make a research that the definiteness and indefiniteness of the denotational information are both meet the needs of speech act.Chapter 3, from the function of given and request information, we point out the influence by the speech act types, also point out that the denotational information also have indefiniteness and we classify the indefiniteness of the question on the base of presupposition and question focus. Point out that the responses from Cooperative Principle always have request for definiteness of the denotation. At last, we discuss that interrogatives sometimes represent the definite information.Chapter 4, we point out that discourse intention have the influence of the choosing of denotation words. The indefiniteness denotation means include strong discourse intention. Analyze the course intention taking on in several sentence patterns. Then separate denotational information to core information and intention part, rich the content of denotational information.