关联理论在大学英语词汇教学中的应用分析-analysis of the application of relevance theory in college english vocabulary teaching.docx

AcknowledgementsI‘d like to express my sincere thanks to my supervisor, Professor Gan Liping, who has given me conductive suggestions and encouragements in the writing of this thesis. Even though professor Gan has stomachache, she has still supported me with insightful comments. Without her, I could not have accomplished my thesis. I also would like to thank my friends who have given me generous help and valuable advice. The last but not the least, special thanks are due to my students in GuiZhou Normal College, who have showed great respect for me and done well in my research.AbstractVocabulary is the key element of English learning, and vocabulary teaching is the most essential and most important part of English teaching. One can not apply this language flexibly without adequate vocabulary size. According to the newly published College English Curriculum Teaching Requirement (2007), more emphasis was given to college English teaching and students‘ vocabulary level. It is difficult to meet what College English Curriculum Teaching Requirement requires, especially for non-English majors. For them, it is a long-term task to find a suitable approach to grasp vocabulary. Although college teachers and students have spent large amount of time and energy on vocabulary learning, and some teachers even have applied different kinds of theories suitable to vocabulary teaching, students haven‘t made remarkable progress in vocabulary learning yet. Finding out an appropriate and efficient method to help students learn vocabulary is a vital task for English teachers.In recent years, the birth of Relevance Theory, a theory based on cognitive and communication has brought the most significant monograph in pragmatics. It was born in 1980s and was put forward by the French linguist Dan Sperber and the British linguist Deirdre Wilson in their co-work Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Relevance Theory includes two relevance principles. The first princ