But since the colour expressed by "fei" and "peachblow" is similar to the colour of young girls,so they were related to the female and were used to refer to "news of illicit love " or "an affair " which reports a kind of news having female participation generally.

By analyzing self-repair in Gossip Girl, the thesis presents the purpose and strategy of self-repair and systematically analyses three phases of self-repair in order to display what functions Relevance Theory performs in the process of self-repair.