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20016136No.6,November2001JournalofForeignLanguagesGeneralSerialNo.136211004-5139200106-0021-08H030A510640SperberWilson1986/1995Verschueren1999adaptation.TheRelevance—AdaptationModelYANGPing(DepartmentofForeignLanguages,SouthChinaUniversityofTechnology,Guangzhou510640,China)Abstract:SperberandWilson(1986/1995)holdthatcommunicationisanostensive-inferentialprocess.Thecommunicator’spresumptionofrelevancedecideshis/herchoicesofstyles.Verschueren(1999:7)claimsthatcommunicationisanadaptationprocessandpragmaticsisageneralcognitive,socialandculturalperspectiveonlinguisticphenomenainrelationtotheirusageinformsofbehaviour.Therefore,usinglanguageconsistsinthecontinuousmakingoflinguisticchoicesintermsofvariability,negotiabilityandadaptability(Verschueren,1999:12).Onthebasisofthetwotheories,theaimofthepresentpaperistoargueforthepossibilityofanewmodelofcommunicationfromthespeaker’spointofview.Thismodelachievesadequacyintermsofdescriptionandexplanationwhichtherelevancetheoryandtheadaptationtheoryfallshortof.Keywords:cognition;presumptionofrelevance;adaptability;variability;negotiability122SperberWilsontheFirstPrincipleofRelevance[1:261]Sperberetal[2]mutualmanifest[1:39-40]SperberWilsonostensive-inferential[1:63]asymmetrical[1:270]ostensivestimulus12preferenceYus[3]Mey&Talbot[4:243]O’Neil[5]2Vershueren[6:4-7]23Vershueren[6:56-57]ab;c;d;eVershueren[6:59-61]a.variability[7]b.negotiabilityc.adaptabilityVershueren[6:61]11[6:76]UttererInterpreter22434Verschueren[6:67]2Verschueren[6]SperberWilson[1]Verschueren[6:77-86]Verschueren[6:96-99]Verschuerenlinguisticcompe-tenceinnateness[6:63-65]mindinsociety25Verschueren[6:176]VerschuerenVerschuerensalience[6:183]Verschueren3SperberWilson[1]Verschueren[6]lllll326SperberWilson[1]Verschueren[6]Verschueren[6]431272Leech[8]BrownLevinson[9]3a.b.speecheventc.discoursed.45—5—[10247]28[10248]patterns6SperberWilson[1]Verschueren[6][1]Sperber&Wilson.Relevance:CommunicationandCognition[M].Oxford:BlackwellPublishers,1986/1995.[2]Sperber,Cara&Girotto.Relevancetheoryexplainstheselectiontask[J].Cognition,1995,(57):31-95.[3]Yus,Francisco.Relevance:AThematicBibliographicalList[J].RevistaAlicantiandeEstudiosIngleses,1998,(11):261-285.[4]Mey,J.LandM.Talbot.ComputationandtheSoul[J].JournalofPragmatics,1988,(12):743-789.[5]O’Neill,J.RelevanceandPragmaticInference[J].TheoreticalLinguistics,1988,(15):67-80.[6]Verschueren,J.UnderstandingPragmatics[M].London:Arnold,1999.[7],.Verschueren[J].,1999,(4):428-432.[8]Leech,G.N.PrinciplesofPragmatics[M].London/NewYork:Longman,1983.[9]Brown,P.&S.Levinson.Universalinlinguisticsusage:politenessphenomena[A].E.N.Goody.QuestionsandPoliteness:StrategiesinSocialInteraction[C].Cambridge:CUP,1978.56-289.[10].[A]..[C].:,2000.242-249.:2001-01-011968-