内容简介 : The present study is an attemptive one on non-natural added information， i.e. overinformativeness in the interactional exchange， endeavoring to explain this linguistic phenomenon on the strength of cultural pragmatic adaptation theory， proposed by Jef. Verschueren and from the perspective of cultural study itself. Some questions concerning this topic have been discussed， including what manipulations and effects of the overinformativeness are demonstrated， how cultural pragmatic adaptation theory explains the overinformativeness， and how the overinformativeness adapt to three properties and four angles ofinvestigation within the scope of cultural pragmatic adaptation theory. The author regards Verschueren's theory of linguistic making-choices as a theoretical framework to explore how both language- internal and language-external choices explain the overinformativeness， and to analyze how the adaptation regarding perlocutionary acts and interactional strategies take place in the overinformativeness. According to Verschueren， the study of pragmatics should be put one's hand from functional perspectives， that is， a general social， cultural and cognitive perspective on language use. Cultural pragmatic adaptation theory is originated and developed on the basis of his notion， a perspective on language. By virtue of present achievements in the field of linguistics， it is believed that cultural pragmatic adaptation theory is a comparatively mature and complete theory， as well as a solid theoretical basis of this book. The author dwells on the overinformativeness and its related studies and achievements. In addition， pragmatics-related aspects， such as traditional notions and Verschueren's functional perspective on pragmatics， are introduced in depth at the beginning of the study.
