语境在关联理论中占有重要地位。语境是一个动态的概念。关联理论把言语交际看作是依据动态的语境进行动态推理的过程。交际双方根据现有语境建构一系列假设,并对之进行认知处理。在交际进展过程中,交际双方根据对方的反应来调整自己的对话,以求完成自己的交际意图。推理过程中推理结果与语境互为基础,逐步深入。 Context plays an important role in relevance theory. Context is a dynamic concept. Relevance theory treats speech communication as the process of dynamic reasoning based on dynamic context. Both sides of communicators construct a series of hypotheses according to the existing contexts and carry out cognitive processing. In the process of communication, both parties of communication adjust their conversations according to each other’s reactions so as to fulfill their communicative intention. Inference process inference results and context based on each other, and gradually.