chapter one a introduction to pragmaticschapter one an introduction to pragmaticschapter one an introduction to pragmaticschapter one an introduction to pragmatics.ppt

An Introduction to Pragmatics Fundamental theories and research practice Main Contents Chapter One Introduction to pragmatics Chapter Two Entailment Chapter Three Presupposition Chapter Four Co-operative principle and conversational implicature Chapter Five Adaptation theory Chapter Six Speech acts Chapter Seven Face and politeness theory Chapter Eight Conversation analysis Chapter Nine Deixis Chapter Ten Systemic Functional grammar Chapter Eleven Critical discourse analysis Chapter Twelve Pragmatic transfer in intercultural communication Chapter Thirteen Appraisal Theory Chapter Fourteen Classroom research on interlanguage pragmatics Chapter Fifteen Data collection in pragmatics research Chapter One Introduction to pragmatics 1.1 The origin and development of pragmatics 1.2 Definitions of pragmatics 1.3 Focus of pragmatics 1.4 Criticisms of pragmatics 1.1 The origin and development of pragmatics Although pragmatics is a relatively new branch of linguistics, research on it can be dated back to ancient Greece and Rome where the term pragmaticus’ is found in late Latin and pragmaticos’ in Greek, both meaning being practical’, it was discussed in the research area of Oratory. The term “pragmatics” is attributed to the philosopher Charles Morris (1938) who was concerned to outline the general shape of a science of signs or semiotics as Morris preferred in Foundations of the Theory of Signs by Charles Morris Morris distinguished three distinct branches of inquiry: Semiotics can be divided into syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics. Syntactics (syntax)---the study of the formal relation of signs to one another Semantics---the study of the relations of signs to the objects to which the signs are applicable Pragmatics---the study of the relation of signs to interpreters Then in Signs, Language and Behavior (1946), he remarks that pragmatics is one part of semiotics, studying the origin of signs, the usage