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外语教学法 张佳 华 中 师 范 大 学 研 究 生 课 程 论 文 完成时间 2021年1月 课程名称 英语语用学 专 业 学科教学（英语） 年 级 2021级 论文题目 The Application of Pragmatics in English Teaching 【Abstract】Pragmatics has gotten more and more attention recently. As a branch of linguistics, the studying of Pragmatics focuses on how to understand and use language in certain contexts, and to achieve the purpose of using English to communicate with each other in the real context successfully. Thus the teaching of pragmatic knowledge is very important and necessary for efficient English teaching. It plays a vital role in our daily communication. In order to make some breakthrough in English teaching, it’s necessary for teachers to pay attention to the importance of pragmatics in their teaching process. By applying the theory of pragmatics to English teaching, teachers can get more scientific methods to improve their English teaching. Only in this way can our students improve their pragmatic ability and thus learn how to study and use English effectively and appropriately and improve their communicative competence. 【Keywords】pragmatics, English teaching, communicative competence 1. Introduction and importance of pragmatics 1.1 Introduction of pragmatics The modern usage of the term “pragmatics”is attributable to the philosopher Charles Morris(1938), who was concerned to outline the general shape of a science of signs or semiotics. Richards et al.(2000) described the term as the study of the use of language in communication. Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context. It deals with particular utterances in particular situations and is especially concerned with the various ways in which many social contexts of language performance can influence interpretation. In other words, pragmatics is concerned with the way language is internally structured. It regards speech performance as primarily a social a