Title: A Tentative Exploration of a Model of Contextual Cues
Abstract: On the basis of the concept of contextualization and the theory of by J.Gumperz and in the light of the achievements in semantics,pragmatics,and discourse analysis research,in this paper the author analyzes the functions of the contextual cues and argues that the meaning of discourse is achieved when various contextual cues trigger off the frame of knowledge and cognitive and inferential mechanisms.Here the author tries to construct a new modal of contextual cues so as to give a graphic illustration to the meaning of discourse construction and interpretation.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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