On Speech Act Theory and College English Teaching.docVIP

On Speech Act Theory and College English Teaching Paper Keywords: Speech Act Theory College English Teaching Context Abstract: This paper introduces and evaluates speech act theory, that when a person speaks will also have three acts: speech act, illocutionary act, and perlocutionary acts. Speech act theory is most concerned about illocutionary act, which attempts to explain speaker lines. in English listening class, the students can be properly understood only through the context of the speaker and the recipient of the “illocutionary act”, that is their true intentions. I. Introduction Since pragmatics is confirmed to be a new discipline of linguistics since the Research Center as one of pragmatic speech act theory has aroused widespread interest from scholars. Psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary criticism home and linguists as extensively studied in depth speech act theory, they sought to explain the theory of the existence of a number of areas of the phenomenon. the advent of speech act theory, not only changed people’s view of language, but also produced for foreign language teaching had a profound impact. speech act theory starting from the social function of language, of language use. In this view of language, the language teaching shifted focus from the language function of language structure, from simple grammatical knowledge to students turn to develop their comprehensive verbal communication skills. In people’s interpersonal relationships, understand the words of others is a basic requirement. If you do not understand what they say, or it is heard clearly, but can not properly understand the intentions of others, it can not be good for communication. The ultimate goal of learning English is to be communicative. Thus, the hearing is an important language communication skills, Listening is an important part of English teaching. In early 2004, the Ministry of Education issued a lt;lt;College English Curriculum Require