语言学Chapter VIII.pptVIP

Unit VIII Language in Use “Have you stopped beating your dog？ Language often points to the unstated commonly understood information. We may be able to use inference to find out what this information is. Who is the President of the USA? “Clinton.“ A guy who has a wife, 2 daughters, 3 ...called Clinton Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context. Two influential pragmatic theories: Austin’s Speech Act Theory Austin’s Early Claim There are two types of sentences: In contrast to performative, constative sentences describe what the speaker is doing at the time of speaking