A field of study to take care of that
part of meaning of language is use
The study of the relationships between
linguistic forms and the user of those forms
Can be defined as a branch of linguistic study
that concerns the factors that govern
our choices of language in social interaction and
the effects of our choice on others.
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Abbreviation
SAT
Speech Act Theory 言语行为理论
CI
Conversation Implicature 会话含义
CP
Cooperative Principle 合作原则
PP
Politeness Principle 礼貌原则
Pragmatics' origin
One year
One person
American philosopher Charles Morris wrote
Foundations of the Signs in 1938
One symbol
Advantage and Disadvantage
Can talk about people's intended meanings
All these very human concepts are extremely
difficult to analyze in a consistent and objective way
Features of language use
Appropriacy 得体性
Indirect Meaning 间接性
Indeterminacy 不确定性
Different Contexts
Linguistic context
Surrounds or accompanies the piece of utterance
or discourse under analysis
Non-linguistic context
Like: joke ;story ;greeting ;topic ect.
Some terms related to pragmatics
Semiotics 符号学
Semantics 符号语言学
Stylistics ＆Social-linguistics 文体学＆社会语言学
Psycholinguistics 语言心理学
Discourse Analysis 衔接手段分析
Levels of meaning
Abstract meaning ＝ Literally meaning
A word a phrase or a sentence ＆ mean or dictionary meanning
Contextual meaning
Assigning senses or references to a word phrase or sentence
