Pragmatics

语用学思维导图，包括：一、Definition；二、 a brief historical overview；三、 different categories of meaning；四、Pragmatics features of language use；五、Sone terms related with Pragmatics；六、 The Scope of Pragmatics。

Pragmatics

• 一、 Definition
  • 1. the study of contextual meaning
  • 2.a field of study to take care of that part of meaning of language in use.
  • 3. the study of the relation of signs to interpreters.
  • 4. is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and the users of those forms.
• 二、 a brief historical overview
  • Pragmatics was first introduced by an American philosophers named Charles Morris
  • the advantage and disadvantage of Pragmatics
    • the advantage is that one can talk about people's intended meanings, their assumptions, their purposes or goals, and the kinds of actions
    • The disadvantage is that all these very human concepts are extremely difficult to analyze in a consistent and objective
  • a young science 79 years (1938-2017)
• 三、 different categories of meaning
  • Conventional meanings and intentional meanings.
• 四、 Pragmatics features of language use
  • Appropriacy
  • IndirectMeaning
  • Indeterminacy
  • Different Contexts:
    • Linguistic context
    • Non-linquistic context:
• 五、 Sone terms related with Pragmatics
  • Semantics
  • Stylistic and Socio-linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Levels of meanings
  • Sentence and Utterance
  • Schools in study of pragmatic meaning
    • Speaker meaning
    • Utterance interpretation
    • Meaning in interaction
• 六、 The Scope of Pragmatics
  • Conversational Implicature会话含义
  • Deixis 指示语
  • Presupposition前提
  • SpeechActs言语行为
  • ConversationStructure会话结构
  • ConversationAnalysis会话分析