Inferential Mechanism Of Meaning Realization In The Film Discourse From The Perspective Of Cognitive Context

Discourse inference is always a hot issue that foreign and domestic scholars pursue. It has experienced from pragmatics to cognitive pragmatics. Grice’s theory is regarded as the starting of the pragmatic discourse inference. On the basis of Grice’s Theory, Relevance Theory has been developed, which discusses the role of the person in discourse inference and is seen as the cognitive pragmatics due to it’s starting from the perspective of human cognition, as a general model for explaining cognitive mechanisms.As a new theory of communication interpretation, Relevance Theory’s unique approach to communication is a domain worthy to be penetrating explored. Relevance Theory defines communication as ostensive-inferential communicative model from the perspective of cognition. Ostension and inference are two aspects of a process. Speaking from the angle of the speaker, communication is an ostensive process or an ostensive way:the speaker sends specific utterances under communication context in order to transmit his or her informative intention to the hearer. To the hearer, communication is an inferential process:the hearer has to infer the real meaning that the speaker wants to convey on the basis of various contextual information. Relevance Theory discusses how human beings as cognitive subjects affect discourse inference and raises the inferential process of discourse inference, which makes great contributions to discourse analysis.This thesis tries to raise a specific inferential step to interpret cognitive inferential mechanism from the angle of film discourse and expound the relationship between cognitive context and inference in the course of communication.