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语用学试卷 1.Answer the following question (20 points) What is your impression on pragmati study? In what way do you think Pragmati study is essential to our English learning? Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics which studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk in interaction and other approaches to language behavior in philosophy, sociology, and linguistics. It studies how the transmission of meaning depends not only on the linguisti knowledge (e.g. grammar, lexicon etc.) of the speaker and listener, but also on the context of the utterance, knowledge about the status of those involved, the inferred intent of the speaker, and so on.In this respect, pragmatics explains how language users are able to overcome apparent ambiguity, since meaning relies on the manner, place, time etc. of an utterance.The ability to understand another speakers intended meaning is called pragmatic competence. So an utterance describing pragmati function is described as metapragmatic. Pragmati awareness is regarded as one of the most challenging aspects of language learning, and comes only through experience 2.why do you think one says to the gate- keeper “May we come in?” when he is alone?And w hy does he still say so to the gate-keeper when he and his company want to go into the park?(15‟) the category of plural notion is not applied to the first person in the same way as it is to the person . Deixis is from a Greek word meaning „indicating‟ or „pointing‟. In linguistics, it refers to certain aspects of context of utterance, including the role of participants in the speech event and their spatio-temporal and social location. It directly concerns the relationship between the structure of language