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utterance, i.e. the act ostin
How to Do Things with Words (1962)
speech acts: actions performed via utterances
Constatives vs. performatives Constatives: utterances which roughly serves
Semantic meaning: the more constant, inherent side of meaning
Pragmatic meaning: the more indeterminate, the more closely related to context
2. Speech Act Theory
(ii) the relevant participants and circumstances must be appropriate.
B. The procedure must be executed correctly and completely.
C. Very often, the relevant people must have the requisite thoughts, feelings and intentions, and must follow it up with actions as specified.
Minister: addressing the groom) (Groom’s Name), do you take (Bride’s Name) for your lawful wedded wife, to live together after God’s ordinance, in the holy estate of matrimony? Will you love, honor, comfort, and cherish her from this day forward, forsaking all others, keeping only unto her for as long as you both shall live?

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Nice to see you all back againChapter One Introduction1. the origin of pragmatics1) about the term “pragmatics”语用学The term "Pragmatics" was first used by Charles William Morris" Foundations of the Theory of Sign"( 1938) .Semiotics syntax semantics users2) the establishmentPragmatics, as a comparatively new and independent discipline of linguistics, appeared in1970s with the publication of "Journal of Pragmatics" in Hetherlands in1977. Before that time the study of pragmatics was limited in the field of linguistic philosophy.3) The three stages in the development of pragmatics:the first stage is from the late 1930s to late 1940s----Pierce, Morris and Carnap considered pragmatics to be a branch of semiology符号学and all the studies were within the domain of philosophy;The second stage is from the beginning of 1950s to late 1960s----Austin, Searle and Grice made studied on speech act and implicature theory, and their achievements sustained the basic theory of pragmatics. The studies were still within the domain of philosophy then;The third stage is after 1970s----the biggest three events happened and pragmatics became an independent discipline.a) In 1977 Mey and Haberland started the Journal of Pragmatics in Holand.b) In 1983 Levinson and Leech published their respectiveworks Pragmatics and Principle of Pragmatics, which set up the theoretic system of pragmatics.c) the set-up of the International Pragmatics Association in 1986 in Belgium.2. What is PragmaticsSome definitions of Pragmatics:1) Pragmatics is the study of all those aspects of meaning not captured in a semantic theory.2) Pragmatics is the study of the relations betweenlanguage and context that are basic to an account of lang understanding.3) Pragmatics is the study of linguistic acts and the contextsin which they are performed.4) Pragmatics is a theory which seeks to characterise howspeakers use the sentences of a language to effect successful communication.5) Pragmatics is the study of language use and linguistic communication.6) Pragmatics can be defined as the study of howutterances have meanings in situations.What do we find in common in the above definitions of Pragmatics？meaning contextBriefly speaking, pragmatics refers to the study language in use, or the meaning in context, or the use of language in communication, or the relationship between linguistic elements and the contexts or situations in which they are used.Language use----language systemthe distinguishing feature of language use from language system is:“One can mean more than one says”Examples:（1）只可意会，不可言传，言有尽而意无尽，词不达意，不知从何说起。

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• 1.person deictics: used to identify participants in the discourse. "I" and "We" are to refer to the speaker and "you" the hearer. The third person pronouns are used to refer to people other than participants.
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• 2.place deictics such as "here" and "this" to iindicate the spatial relations between the speaker and the referred object or place. Some verbs also denotes the spatial relations between the speaker, the hearer and the place designated, such as "come/go" and "bring/take".
• But if it is said when John is swimming, it probably means "John swims well".
If it is said at a party, it will be taken to mean that "John can drink a lot of wine", etc.
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II. Context & Meaning

pragmatics定义

pragmatics定义Pragmatics，即语用学，是语言学的一个分支领域，研究的是语言在实际使用中的意义和效果。

它关注的是人们如何根据语境和目标来理解和运用语言，以达到交际的目的。

在本文中，我们将探讨语用学的定义、重要概念和应用领域。

让我们来定义一下语用学。

语用学研究的是语言的使用，而不仅仅是语言的结构和形式。

它关注的是人们是如何根据具体的语境来理解和运用语言的。

在语用学中，我们研究的是语言的意义，即语言的含义和使用者的意图之间的关系。

在语用学中，有一些重要的概念需要我们了解。

第一个概念是"言外之意"，即指的是人们在交际中所传达的除了字面意义之外的意思。

例如，当一个人说"天气好"时，他可能的言外之意是希望对方与他一起出去玩。

这个概念在理解他人的意图和进行有效的沟通时非常重要。

第二个概念是"会话合作原则"，它由语言学家Grice提出。

会话合作原则指的是在交际过程中，人们通常会遵循一些准则，以确保交流的顺利进行。

这些准则包括：合作原则、量原则、质原则和关联原则。

合作原则要求人们相互合作，尽力使对方理解自己的意思；量原则要求提供足够的信息，既不多也不少；质原则要求提供真实和可靠的信息；关联原则要求在交际中保持话题的连贯性。

语用学在现实生活中有许多重要的应用领域。

其中之一是交际策略。

交际策略是指人们在交际过程中采取的一些技巧和方法，以实现自己的交际目的。

例如，当一个人想要请求帮助时，他可以使用委婉语言来表达请求，以增加对方的接受度。

交际策略的研究可以帮助人们更好地理解和运用语言，从而提高交际的效果。

另一个应用领域是语言教学。

语用学可以帮助教师更好地教授语言，使学生能够真正地理解和运用语言。

通过教授学生一些常见的交际策略和语用规则，学生能够更好地掌握语言的意义和使用方式。

这有助于提高他们的语言水平和交际能力。

语用学还在法律、广告和政治等领域有广泛的应用。

语言学Pragmatics语用学

Waiter 2: He’s sitting by the door.
Fresh salad refers to the customer who ordered fresh salad.
Teacher: You can borrow my Shakespeare. Waiter: the ham sandwich left without paying. Nurse: The hernia（疝气）in room 5 wants to talk to the
A: Can I look at your Chomsky?
B: Sure, it’s on the shelf over there.
Chomsky refers to the book written by Chomsky. Waiter 1: Where’s the fresh salad sitting?
Person
Person
deixis
deixis
• You’ll have to bring
it
back
tomorrow Temporal deixis
because she isn’t Person deixis
Spatial deixis
Temporal deixis
here today.
All the deictic expressions have to be interpreted in terms of which person, place or time the speaker has in mind. We make a broad distinction between what is marked as close to the speaker(this, here, now) and what is distant(that, there, then), we can also indicate whether movement is away from the speaker’s location(go) or toward the speakers location(come).

Chapter 8 Pragmatics 语用学语言学教程胡壮麟.ppt

(b) In a language class where a student made a mistake, for he intended to say “tidy”.
(c) The room was wanted for a meeting.
பைடு நூலகம்
(2) I can’t work under untidy circumstances.
are acts.
8.1.1 Performatives and constatives Austin (How to Do Things with Words,
1962) Consider these sentences: a) I name this ship Elizabeth. b) I bequeath my watch to my brother. c) I now pronounce you man and wife. d) I bet you sixpence it will rain
A. (i) There must be a relevant conventional procedure, and
(ii) the relevant participants and circumstances must be appropriate.
B. The procedure must be executed (i) correctly and (ii) completely.
Possible contexts:
(a) A request to someone to tidy up the circumstances.
(b) It was an excuse for not wanting to do something there.

现代英语语言学理论 CHAPTER 8

5. Scope of Pragmatics
Pragmatics may be defined as the study of meaning. The word meaning may have many different meanings. In semantics, meaning depends more on who the speaker of the sentence is, who the hearer is, when and where it is used. Meaning depends more on the context.
8.2 Speech Act Theory
This theory originated with the Oxford philosopher John Langshaw Austin. In 1955, when he went to America to deliver the William James lectures, he revised the notes and changed the title from Words and Deeds to How to Do Things with Words, which was published posthumously in 1962.
8.1 Pragmatics
Or rather, you do know the speaker’s intention, but you want to use “What do you mean?” as a denial of what he has asserted. This kind of meaning is sometimes referred to as SPEAKER’S MEANING, UTTERANCE MEANING, or CONTEXTUAL MEANING. The discipline, which concentrates on this kind of meaning, is called PRAGMATICS.

语用学 pragmatics

语用学pragmatics语用学：语用学(pragmatics)是对人类有目的的行为所作的研究(广义)，对有目的的语言活动的研究(狭义)。

源起符号学(semiotics)。

符号学：符号学是系统地研究语言符号和非语言符号的学科。

有三个分支--符号关系学、语义学、语用学。

符号关系学(syntactics)研究符号之间的形式关系。

语义学(semantics)研究符号与符号所代表的事物之间的关系。

语用学(pragmatics)研究符号与符号解释者之间的关系。

语用学与语义学的联系和区别：语用学和语义学都是符号学的分支。

语义学主要指狭义的语义学，即逻辑语义学，它研究句子和词语本身的意义，研究命题的真值条件(truth conditions)。

语用学研究言语使用上的意义，研究传递语言信息的适宜条件(felicity conditions)。

语义学揭示的意义是二元关系的句子意义(sentence meaning)，解决"Whatdoes Xmean?"的问题。

语用学揭示的是三元关系的说话人意义(Speaker meaning)，解决"What did you mean by X?"的问题。

语境(context)：最狭义的语境是指语言的上下文。

语境还必须包括语言外的因素。

语境因素包括语言知识、语言外知识；语言知识包括对所使用的语言的掌握、对语言交际上文的了解；语言外知识包括背景知识、情景知识、相互知识，背景知识包括百科全书式的知识(常识)、特定文化的社会规范、特定文化的会话规则，情景知识包括交际的时间、地点、交际的主题、交际的正是程度、交际参与者的相互关系。

语境是一个动态的、发展的概念。

交际本身就是一个动态的过程，在交际过程中，语境也随之而变。

有些语境因素相对来说比较稳定，例如背景知识、交际的时间、地点等，但有些因素却会变化，特别重要的是相互知识这一因素，它在交际过程中不断扩大，原来不为双方所共有的知识完全可能在交际过程中变为相互知识，成为进一步交际的基础。

语言学资料Pragmatics解析

How to Do Things with Words (1962)
analyzing the role of utterances in relation to the behavior of the speaker and the hearer in interpersonal communication
users.
Some Basic Notions in Pragmatics
Pragmatics, Semantics
Semantics---- is the study of the literal meaning of a sentence (without taking context into consideration).
E.g. It is cold in here. You have left the door wide open. Morning !
*** the most important part = the illocutionary acts
E.g. ---- (the telephone rings) ----H: That’s the phone. (a) ----W: I’m in the bathroom. (b) ----H: Okay. (c)
Austin’s New Model of Speech Acts
a speaker might be performing three acts simultaneously when speaking:
Locutionary act----an act of saying something, i.e. an act of making a meaningful utterance (conveying the literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology).

英语语言学第八章语用学 pragmatics

A perlocutionary act: is the consequential aspect of an utterance in terms of the effects the speaker achieves on the hearer, i.e. the act of bring something to happen

Among these kinds of speech acts, pragmatists are most interested in illocutionary act. This is because illocutionary act conforms to the speaker's intention and is thus the focus for the study of verbal communication.
Logic and Conversation in 1975

Grice’s theory Logic and Conversation is an attempt at explaining how a hearer gets from what is said to what is meant, from the level of expressed meaning to the level of implied meaning.

XXX，你是否愿意娶xxx为妻，按照圣经的教训与他同住，在神面前和她结为一体，爱她、安慰她、尊重她、保护他，像你爱自己一样。不论她生病或是健康、富有或贫穷，始终忠於她，直到离开世界？ Groom: I do.
Felicity conditions: A. (i) There must be a relevant conventional procedure. (ii) the relevant participants and circumstances must be appropriate. B. The procedure must be executed correctly and completely. C. Very often, the relevant people must have the requisite thoughts, feelings and intentions, and must follow it up with actions as specified.

英语语用学pragmatics

context

For example, “ It is cold in here.” from semantics, it simply expresses the semantic proposition of “the low temperature in a certain place”. They do not consider the following factors as “who speaks it to whom , when, where, why etc. In other words , they do not include context in the study of meanings
Definitions of Pragmatics
Definition 1: Pragmatics is the study of those relations between language and context that are grammaticalized, or encoded in the structure of a language. 语用学是对在一种语言的结构中被语法化或被编码的那些语言和语境之间的关系的研究。
Austin’s new model

Later,he gave up his distinction between constatives and performatives and set up his new model-a speaker might be performing 3 acts at the same time when speaking: locutionary act言内行为,illocutionary act言外行为 and perlocutionary言后行为.

语言学8.pragmatics

To make sense out of nonsense Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
The Green party of parliament has lots of ideas, often referred to as the "green ideas", however ,these ideas are rather dull and hence often called colourless.? Due to the nature of the colourless green ideas they have been subdued by others and put into a dormancy, a sleep as such, not that they take any liking to this, mainly because the very nature of these ideas causes quite a furious rebuttal when they are put to sleep.?
To specify the utterance meaning
Inference rules
Sentence meaning + Context
Utterance meaning
I’m feeling a little cold. I like you very much.
你有钱吗？
The role of context in conversation
Key in the distinction
Both semantics and pragmatics study the meaning of a linguistic form. However, they are different in many respects, such as their research methods, their research scope. What essentially distinguishes them is whether in the study of meaning the context of use is considered. If it its not considered, the study is confined to the area of traditional semantics; If it is considered, the study is being carried out in the area of pragmatics.

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复习专八的同志们注意啦，个人潜心整理--人文知识之语言学部分，希望能帮上点儿忙，一起加油！作者：張旭BEYONDTEM-8 语言学知识复习总结重要概念梳理CNU 张旭ZX第一节语言的本质一、语言的普遍特征（Design Features）1任意性Arbitratriness：shu 和Tree都能表示“树”这一概念；同样的声音，各国不同的表达方式2双层结构Duality：语言由声音结构和意义结构组成（the structure of sounds and meaning）3多产性productive:语言可以理解并创造无限数量的新句子，是由双层结构造成的结果（Understand and create unlimited number with sentences）4移位性Displacemennt：可以表达许多不在场的东西，如过去的经历、将来可能发生的事情，或者表达根本不存在的东西等5文化传播性Cultural Transmission：语言需要后天在特定文化环境中掌握二、语言的功能（Functions of Language）6 1. 传达信息功能Informative：最主要功能The main function7 2. 人际功能Interpersonal：人类在社会中建立并维持各自地位的功能establish and maintain their identity8 3. 行事功能performative：现实应用——判刑、咒语、为船命名等Judge，naming，and curses9 4. 表情功能Emotive：表达强烈情感的语言，如感叹词/句exclamatoryexpressions10 5. 寒暄功能Phatic：应酬话phatic language，比如“吃了没？”“天儿真好啊！”等等11 6. 元语言功能Metalingual：用语言来谈论、改变语言本身，如book可以指现实中的书也可以用“book这个词来表达作为语言单位的“书”三、语言学的分支1. 核心语言学Core linguisticl 语音学Phonetics：关注语音的产生、传播和接受过程，着重考察人类语言中的单音。

Chapter 8 语言学-Pragmatics

2.1 Constatives vs. performatives
• Constatives: utterances which roughly serves to state a fact, report that something is the case, or describe what something is, eg:
• It is a philosophical explanation of the nature of linguistic communication.
– 2.1 Constatives vs. performatives – 2.2 A theory of illocutionary act
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• Various definitions:
– The study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication. – The study of language in use. – The study of meaning in context. – The study of speakers’ meaning,
– – – – I will come in a few seconds. I was reading a novel last night. You are responsible for this accident. He is in charge of our department.
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• Conclusions:
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• Features of performatives • First person singular subject • Simple present tense • Indicative mood • Active voice • Performative verbs

语言学--Pragmatics

Meaningful sentence
temporal
spatial
stylistic
The meaningful interpretation of a speech is no longer confined to words. Pragmatics aims, instead, to look into what more and how that more is contextually communicated in deeds than is said in words.
8.1 Distinction of pragmatics
Pragmatics, derived from the Greek pragma, meaning “deed”, is anothenly studying the meaning of language in use and the contexts in which It is used. Therefore, we may try, if we’d like to look for interpretations of its meaning, to imagine some possible contexts for the use of this utterance.
Have a try Can you explain the following sentence.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. ——Chomsky
In chapter7, this sentence would be regarded as a meaning less one. Idea——inanimate——be not able to sleep Green——specified——not colorless Sleep——a calm period of rest——fury Conclusion : the sentence does not have any proper linguistic property of its own for interpreting its meaning.

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Semantics & Pragmatics
• • • • • Peter bought a car. It was Peter who bought a car. It was a car that Peter bought. What peter bought was a car. 句法学：说明这些句子是同一深层经过不同转换的结果 • 语义学：这些句子都是同义的。 • 语用学：这些句子都是不同的。
• 82.Once the notion of ____ was taken into consideration, semantics spilled into pragmatics. • A. meaning • B. context • C. form • D. content • Answer: B
Syntactics Pragmatics
符号三分说 Syntactics: the formal relation of signs to one another. Semantics: the relations of signs to the objects to which the signs are applicable. Pragmatics: the relation of signs to interpreters.
Semantics & Pragmatics
• Both are concerned with study of meaning. • 没有第一层次的研究，很难进行第二层次的研究 • 语用意义不能脱离语言本身因有的内在意义
• 语义学是对语言能力(competence)的研究 • 语用学是对语言行为(performance)的研究 • 语言行为是语言能力的具体体现actual realization Chomsky

哈师大语言学chapter 8 pragmatics

• Leech (1983): Pragmatics can be usefully defined as the study of how utterances have meanings in situations. • Crystal (1987/1997): Pragmatics studies the factors that govern our choice of language in social interaction and the effects of our choice on others.
3. Stable product 4. Analyze sentence in isolation
Bigger chunks of conversation Dynamic prysis & pragmatic analysis
Grammatical (sentence) Pragmatic (utterance)
1. units of linguistic system Instances of the system
2. Stop at sentence level
• Maggie: Coffee? • James: It would keep me awake all night.
• Linda: Have you finished the student evaluation forms and the reading lists? • Jean: I’ve done the reading lists.
Utterance
• Jane: Coffee? • Steve: Sure. • Jane: White? • Steve: Black.

新编简明英语语言学教程pragmatics

CHAPTER EIGHT PRAGMATICS
What is pragmatics?
﹍﹍the study of language in use or language in communication, particularly the relationship between sentences and the contexts and situation in which they are used.
the study of semantics.
ˉˉˉ ■
Utterance meaning
concrete and context-dependent meaning;
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intended meaning of a speaker;
the study of pragmatics.
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e.g. The bag is a bit heavy. sentence meaning: one-place predication BAG(BE HEAVY)
On other occasion it means; John is as cold as fish.
Distinction between sentence and utterance meaning
ˉˉˉ
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Sentence meaning
abstract and context-independent meaning; literal meaning of a sentence;
■ Differences:
Semantics–– the study of the literal meaning of a sentence (without taking context into consideration).