顺应论视角下《家有儿女》中刻意曲解现象的语用研究

Chapter One Introduction

1.1 Research Background 
Language is often used as a tool for  communication. Many language strategies may be used when people  talk  with  each  other.  Deliberate  Misinterpretation,  or  DMI  for  short,  often  appears  in  verbal communication as a language strategy. DMI, as a special language phenomenon, is often used to achieve special  communicative  goals.  That  is  to  say,  when  people  use  this  language  strategy,  they  want  to achieve their special communicative effects. DMI, as a special pragmatic strategy, exists mainly because of the three properties of language: variability, negotiability and adaptability. In verbal communication, the second speaker sometimes misinterprets the first speaker’s intended meaning, which is the result of linguistic adaptation.  DMI has aroused the interest of researchers both in China and abroad.  However, it was regarded as a special kind of misunderstanding by researchers abroad at first, and there were few studies about DMI in  China  before  2004.  Until  2004,  Chinese  linguists  He  Ziran  and  Shen  Zhiqi  publicized  their  article Pragmatic  Analysis  of  Deliberate  Misinterpretation,  which  first  clarified  the  definition  of  DMI.  After their  study,  many  studies  have  been  conducted  to  research  DMI  from  different  perspectives.  However, most studies from the perspective of pragmatics only analyzed DMI by adoptin g the Relevance Theory, the  Face Theory and the Politeness Principle.  Few  studies  have  explored DMI from the perspective of Linguistic  Adaptation  Theory.  DMI  is  the  result  of  the  language  using  and  choosing  process  and  the Linguistic  Adaptation  Theory  can  be  applied  to  analyze  DMI.  Therefore,  this  thesis  is  going  to  study DMI appeared  in  the  sitcom  Home with Kids  I  based  on the  Linguistic Adaptation Theory.  Home with Kids  I  is  a  popular  sitcom  in  mainland  China,  which  consists  of  one  hundred  episodes.  The  v erbal communication  in  this  sitcom  has  some  similarities  with  the  practical  daily  communication.  Thus,  the study of DMI in this sitcom is meaningful.  
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1.2 Research Purposes and Significance
The  research  is  going  to  explore  DMI  in  the  sitcom  Home  with  Kids  I  from  the  perspective  of Linguistic  Adaptation  Theory.  Choosing  DMI  in  sitcom  Home  with  Kids  I  is  based  on  the  following reasons. First, many people may associate DMI with misunderstanding.

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