《英语语用学》课件.pptVIP

Lecture One:  Introduction to Pragmatics :《英语语用学》 KeXianbing Central China Normal University 2011-03-05 Teaching outline 1 What is pragmatics? 2 A Historical Overview of the term “Pragmatics” 3 Pragmatics as a branch of linguistics 4 Pragmatic aspects of language use 5 The scope of pragmatics Preliminary examples Example: He went to town yesterday. Linguistic analysis includes: Phonological analysis: Graphological analysis Grammatical analysis(IC analysis): Semantic (componential /predicate) analysis : Who is he? Which town or when is yesterday? underdetermined, uncertain --- Pragmatic analysis on  “He went to town yesterday.” Depending on the different contexts: This sentence can be used by many people on many occasions for many purposes; it has meant many different things and performed many functions . He: anybody, any male--- someone’s brother or father, Churchill, Stalin, or Roosevelt, or 胡锦涛，etc. town: any place big enough to be called town--- London, Moscow or Washington, 汉口镇，武昌区，etc. yesterday: any day in the past---August 22, 1778, November 6, 1976, on May 1, 500 B.C, or even on Saturday, September 11, 2010.　 Pragmatic analysis on  “He went to town yesterday.” Depending on the different contexts: This sentence can be performed many functions: A statement of information, question, defense, warning, etc. The context of situation in which a sentence is used contributed a lot to its meaning, which can not be accounted for in pure linguistic /grammatical analysis. Comment: So, how to apply the general linguistic theories into actual language use , that is, how to create meaning and understand created meaning is an important aspect of the pragmatic study. It is of vital significance to continue the pragmatic study besides the general, abstract linguistic study. That’s what we are going to study this morning:Pragmatics :the Study of Contextual Meaning. 1