TeachingNotesforWeek16ofEnglishLinguisticsII.docVIP

Teaching Notes for Week 16 of English Linguistics II I. What is pragmatics? 男：你今天不戴眼镜，真好看！ 女：什么意思啊？你是说我戴眼镜的时候很丑了！呜呜呜！ A: You are a fool! B: What do you mean? Pragmatics is the study of language in use, the study of meaning in context, and the study of speakers’ meaning, utterance meaning, contextual meaning. Speaker’s meaning Utterance meaning utterance vs. sentence sentence: an abstract unit of the language system utterance: a unit of language in use sentence meaning: What does X mean? utterance meaning: What do you mean by X? Contextual meaning meaning in context The meaning of an utteranc