中国英语学习者对结构歧义的认识和处理

论文摘要

本文通过分析本族语使用者和英语作为第二语言的学习者在歧义理解和运用中的异同,探讨英语歧义的本质特征,并为英语作为第二语言的学习者提供歧义认识与处理的基本思路。同时作者聚焦影响英语歧义的认识和处理的一些因素:第二语言学习者是否意识到英语中歧义现象的存在并且是否在有意识地处理歧义,第二语言学习者在理解结构歧义方面与英语作为母语的学习者之间的第一反映是否相同以及消除歧义的一些规则和对歧义的认识等是否具有可教性。 本文首先对歧义的正面和负面效应进行了研究,同时详述了歧义的显著特征,歧义的分类尤其是结构歧义的分类,消除方法以及在各种语言中的地位。第二部分的后半部分回顾了几十年来歧义方面的研究发现。在此基础上,第三,四,五部分采用定量分析和定性分析的方法, 结合英语作为第二语言的学习者在对歧义的认识和处理遇到的困难和障碍,分析了对歧义认识和理解的习得和教学,并提 出切实可行的教与学的建议。 通过分析第一和第二语言学习者对英语歧义的认识和处理,本文提出了切实可行的教授第二语言的建议。本文也提出了有效的对于如何克服语言学习和教学方法困难的建议。这里需要指出的是,对歧义的意识增进是理解和处理歧义的重要步骤,对于第二语言学习者是很重要的。

论文目录

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Negative and Positive Pragmatic Effects
• 1.1.1 The Negative Effects of Ambiguity
• 1.1.2 The Positive Effects
• 1.2 Significance of the Study
• 1.3 General Organization of the Thesis
• Chapter 2 Theoretical Basis and Related Research
• 2.1 The Development of Ambiguity
• 2.2 Homonymy and Polysemy
• 2.3 Views on the Definition of Ambiguity
• 2.4 Comparison Between Ambiguity and Fuzziness
• 2.5 Structural Ambiguity
• 2.5.1 The Distinction Between Lexical and Structural Ambiguities
• 2.5.2 The Concept of Syntactic Ambiguity
• 2.6 The Features of Ambiguity
• 2.6.1 Dividability
• 2.6.2 Dependence:
• 2.6.3 Multi-layered Causes:
• 2.7 The Disambiguation
• 2.7.1 Ambiguity and Context
• 2.7.2 Eliminating Ambiguities
• 2.7.3 Ways of Disambiguation
• 2.8 Previous Researches on the Research of Ambiguity
• 2.8.1 Description and Classification in a Theoretical Way
• 2.8.2 One Kind of Ambiguity and Its Causes
• 2.8.3 The Relations with Context and Its Applications
• 2.8.4 Tolerance of Ambiguities
• 2.8.5 Interpretations by EFL Learners and Affecting Factors
• 2.9 Summary
• Chapter 3 Research Method
• 3.1 The Causes of Ambiguity
• 3.2 Research Questions
• 3.3 Subjects
• 3.4 Instruments
• 3.4.1 Tests
• 3.4.2 Questionnaire
• 3.5 Procedure
• Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Discussion
• 4.1 Ambiguity Recognition and Processing
• 4.1.1 Consciousness-raising of Ambiguity
• 4.1.2 The Biggest Headaches
• 4.2 The First Reactions
• 4.2.1 Summary of the Interviews
• 4.2.2 The Five Causes of Different First Reactions
• 4.3 The Teachability of Rules
• Chapter 5 Implications
• 5.1 Consciousness-raising Activities
• 5.2 Ambiguity Processing in Vocabulary Teaching
• 5.3 Meaning-centered Teaching Method
• Chapter 6 Conclusion
• 6.1 Summary
• 6.2 Limitations
• Published Papers
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Appendices
• Appendix Ⅰ The Number of the Identified Ambiguous Structures..............................................66
• Appendix Ⅱ Comparison of the First Reactions to the Ambiguous Structures............................67
• Appendix Ⅲ Causes of the Subjects' First Reactions to Ambiguous Structures..........................70
• Appendix Ⅳ Post-test of Ambiguity Structures' Identification....................................................71
• Appendix Ⅴ Learning Strategies..................................................................................................71
• Appendix Ⅵ Teachability of Ambiguity Processing.....................................................................72
• Appendix Ⅶ Test Paper for the 60 Ambiguous Sentences............................................................73
• Appendix Ⅷ The Interviews of Both EFL Learners and Native English Speakers......................74
• Resume