人文学科创新的一个重要手段是通过跨学科研究以实现研究视域的变换,在含义研究中用因果蕴涵理论取代原来的蕴涵理论是研究视域的转换,是理论上的转型,是理论思维新的起点。逻辑学的蕴涵即实质蕴涵,蕴涵理论有蕴涵怪论,导致经典格氏推导机制和新格氏推导机制存在一定的不确定性。因果蕴涵强调的是具体事件,它所涉及的因果关系是具体的,受一定的语境和说话人意向性的约束,落实为一因一果,即由唯一的原因作用而产生唯一的后果。用因果蕴涵理论建构含义推导机制,可以带来含义推导的确定性,使含义研究焕发出新活力。

One of the important means of humanities innovation is the transformation of theory through interdisciplinary research. In this paper, Causal Implication Theory is used instead of implication theory, which carries paradoxes of implication, is the transformation of the research horizon, the transformation of theory, thus forming a new starting point of theoretical thinking. While paradoxes of implication gives rise to uncertainty of the inference mechanism of Grice’s and Neo-Grice’s, Causal Implication Theory stresses the specific causal relationship in one specific event, which is constrained by certain context and the speaker’s orientation, thus bringing about specific result out of the specific reason. In other words, one result corresponds exactly to one reason, thus Causal Implication Theory bringing certainty to the inference mechanism to such an extent that implication. In so doing, the old topic, the study of conversational implicature, is given new vitality.