College of Speech Act Theory in the Interpretation of English Teaching.doc

College of Speech Act Theory in the Interpretation of English Teaching Paper Keywords: Speech act theory; relevance theory; speech act awareness; social function Abstract: In this paper, speech act theory is briefly reviewed, and makes a tentative comments. And then in the critical shortage of speech act theory, while, for example, discusses in detail the relevance of Speech Act Theory Theory, and to further explore English teaching at the university train students in how to conduct community awareness of language, their English speech act of social communicative function. Speech Act Theory by Austin (JL Austin) in the 20th century, 50 years and subsequently Searle (J. R. Searle) in succession and critical analysis of ordinary language philosophy based on the theories and methods to make further systematic and rigorous technology, to put forward a complete set of speech act theory (Levinson, 1983). The theory has become a philosophy, linguistics, an important research topic, especially in the modern core of pragmatics one. It is philosophy, semantics, pragmatics research has opened up a new field. Sperber and Wilson inherited Austin in critical speech act theory and Searle’s proposed based on the perspective of relevance theory in the classification, so that scholars are from a new perspective to understand the speech act theory, and further discussed in the college English teaching students how to develop awareness of social speech acts, their English speech act of social communicative function. I. Review of the Theory Speech act theory is Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, established in Austin. Austin According to the speaker and listener in the communicative behavior to analyze the relationship between the discourse functions. This is the general theory of social activity based on a semantic theory proposed by , and its basic starting point is the basic unit of communication is not a sentence or discourse but rather a cert