第六章pragmatics.ppt

Review A sentence can be discussed in terms of: 1) Grammatical meaning 2) Semantic meaning Boys are boys. It’s not enough to study the meaning of a sentence only in terms of grammatical meaning and semantic meaning What a fool! A1: Gosh! I forget to bring the key with me. A2: What a fool! B1: Your boyfriend has been waiting for you in the rain more than an hour. B2: What a fool! C1: The volunteer taught in the remote primary school for ten years. C2: What a fool! Pragmatics 1.Pragmatics is the study of those relations between language and context that are grammatica