讲义参考说明语言学pragmatics.pptxVIP

1 Pragmatics 2 Pragmatics can be defined as the study of how speakers use the sentences of a language to effect successful communication. 3 Pragmatics is different from traditional semantics in that it studies meaning not in isolation but in context. 4 Semanticists take meaning to be an inherent property of language, pragmaticists regard meaning as something that is realized in the course of communication. 5 Sentence Meaning Utterance Meaning It is the abstract context-independent entity called semantic proposition. It is context-dependent. It is the product of sentence meaning and contex