Understanding Pragmatics 《语用学新解》书评

Content of the book
ChapterⅠ
The Pragmatic Perspective
An overview of focal points in history
Deixis speech acts implicit meaning Cooperative Principles
of “conversational logic” based on a number of “m axims of conversation”, i.e. intuitive principles wh ich are supposed to guide conversational interacti on in keeping with a general “co-operative princip le”.
Confusions
1: Is the context always reliable in the commu
nication?
2: What’s the relationship between use of lan
guage and salie来自ce?3: What’s the function of salience?
Politeness: a cover term in pragmatics for whate
ver choices are made in language use in relation t o the need to preserve people’s face in general.
Variability: the property of language which defines the
Politeness Intentionality Genres of language use
General Impression
Impression :
1. The author’s opinions are quite special. 2. Some new theories are introduced.
Judgment:
This book is difficult to understand. The author p roposed some new theories and reviewed some t raditional pragmatic topics from different new a ngles, which are abstract to understand.
Understanding Pragmatics
Written by: Jef Verschueren Presented by: Hu Jie (No. 4)
The Structure
Introduction PartⅠ: The pragmatics perspective
Chapter 1. Language and language use Chapter 2. Key notions PartⅡ: Aspects of the meaningful functioning of language Chapter 3. Context Chapter 4. Structure Chapter 5. Dynamics Chapter 6. Salience
PartⅢ: Topics and trends Chapter 7. Micropragmatics issues Chapter 8. Macropragmatic issues Chapter 9. The pragmatic landscape
Definitions
Cooperative Principles: Grice proposed a system
Salience: a term used to designate the status of pro
cesses of meaning generation in relation to the mediu m of adaptability.
liguistic context: the linguistic channel chosen for
Adaptability: the property of language which enables
human beings to make negotiable linguistic choices fro m a variable range of possibilities in such a way as to ap proach points of satisfaction for communicative needs.
range of possibilities from which choices can be made.
Negotiability: the property of language responsible for
the fact that choices are not made mechanically or acco rding to strict rules or fixed form-function relationship s, but rather on the basis of highly flexible principles an d strategies.
communicating and to aspects of linguistic choice-ma king itself.
dynamics of communication: is central to the
processes of interadaptation in language use or to the meaningful functioning of lalnguage.