摘 要：语言交际中通过推理才能了解语句在特定情景下所传达的信息，所以英语教学中听力理解是一个推理过程。笔者认为为了提高教学效果，教师在听力训练中需要培养学生的推理能力，使学生掌握相关知识，提高会话隐涵推理能力，从而增进对英语会话的理解。

    关键词：推理；关联理论；会话含义；听力理解

    中图分类号： H319文献标识码： A文章编号： 1000-5544(2008)04-0055-04

    Abstract:

    One of the most important tasks of English teaching in China is to find an efficient method of teaching English listening. In the past, strategies of listening have been widely examined and discussed. We think if we lay emphasis on the learners’ ability of inferring the conversational implicature in our training, it will help them improve their listening ability. Our experiment shows that this method has proved effective in teaching listening.

    Key words: pragmatic inference; relevance theory; conversational implicature; listening comprehension

    1. 引言

    Grice 在20世纪60年代提出的“会话含义理论” 从意义(meaning)衍生出含义(implicature) ......