A Brief Research into Readers' Inferential Model of Literary Texts
Hu Jian · Anhui Nongye Daxue xuebao · 2002
Literary texts are also a kind ofdiscoursefrom a linguistic point of view.Howe ver,it is the receiver(reader)who infers the meaning when interpre ting the text.Therefore,such a kind of inference is a typical unilateral infer-ence.This thesis intends to constru ct a reader' s inferential model on the basis of th e cognitive context of literary texts and discusses the theoretical sources of the model as well as its merits.