Title: Three-Dimensional Relationship between Contexts,Thinking and Semantic Meanings
Abstract: The systematic and scientific study of semantic meanings is very essential in linguistics study.Words or expressions will be meaningless without contexts.This paper aims to deal with the relation between thinking and semantic meaning as well as that between contexts and semantic meanings.The paper firstly explores into the influence of contextualization on the meaning of utterances,then points out the ways in which dynamic contexts affecting meanings.Contextualism of the Relevance Theory is also a requisite to stimulating the addressee into meaning-understanding.And the English-American utterances can be understood only after discarding traditional Chinese ways of thinking.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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