精品课程《英语语言学》.pptVIP

Chapter Eight Language in Use Outline 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Speech act theory 8.3 Principles of conversation and flouting of the conversation maxims 8.4 Task 8.1 Introduction 8.1.1 Definitions: Pragmatics is the study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication. It studies the following topics: deixis (指示功能), speech acts, indirect language, conversation, politeness, cross-cultural communication, and presupposition. (Dai He, 2002, p. 84) Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning, contextual meaning, how more gets communicated than is said, the expression