Content

序
前言
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Notes on related terms
1.3 Terminological issue
1.4 An overview of related studies
1.4.1 Pragmatic studies of misunderstanding
1.4.2 Related studies of deliberate misinterpretation
1.5 The perspectives of present study

Chapter 2 A Description of the Conceptual Framework
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The delimitation of deliberate misinterpretation
2.2.1 Working definition of deliberate misinterpretation
2.2.2 Properties of the process of deliberate misinterpretation
2.2.3 Deliberate misinterpretation vs. accidental misunderstanding
2.2.4 Deliberate misinterpretation vs. digression
2.2.5 DMI/deliberate non-understanding vs. faked non-understanding
2.2.6 Deliberate misinterpretation vs. misleading
2.3 A discussion of the theoretical background of the framework
2.3.1 Linguistic adaptation theory
2.3.2 Relevance theory
2.3.3 Face theory and politeness
2.4 The characterization of conceptual framework
2.4.1 Cognitive Basis of deliberate misinterpretation
2.4.2 Deliberate misinterpretation as a process of choise making
2.4.3 Communicative needs
2.4.4 Contextual correlates of adaptability
2.4.5 Interactional natures
2.5 Summary

Chapter 3 Prerequisites to Deliberate Misinterpretation
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Mutuality
3.2.1 Mutuality of logical information
3.2.2 Muatuality of encyclopaedic information
3.2.3 Mutuality of linguistic information
3.2.4 Mutuality of immediate context
3.3 Relevance as a generalized communicative principle
3.4 Triggers of deliberate misinterpretation
3.4.1 Minimal information provided by S1
3.4.2 Indeterminacy of S1’s conversational utterance
3.5 Summary

Chapter 4 Means of Deliberate Misinterpretation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Deliberately violating the Law of Identity
4.1.1 Deliberately violating the Law of Identity in concept
4.1.2 Deliberately violating the Law of Identity in judgment
4.3 Deliberately ignoring the context
4.3.1 Disregarding the speech situation
4.3.2 Telling a truism
4.3.3 Being overliteral
4.4 Summary

Chapter 5 Functioning of Deliberate Misinterpretation
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Contextual correlates affecting the choise of DMI
5.2.1 DMI as a means of adaptation to the social word
5.2.2 DMI as a means of adaptation to the mental word
5.3 Communicative functions of DMI
5.3.1 Improving interpersonal relationships
5.3.2 Manipulating information
5.3.3 Creative special communicative effect
5.4 Properties of the functioning of DMI
5.4.1 Discrepancy
5.4.2 Implicitness
5.5 Summary

Chapter 6 Conclusion
6.1 The generative mechanism of DMI
6.2 The variable means of DMI
6.3 Functioning of DMI

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