Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Interpretation as Pragmatics让-贾可勒赛克勒，作为语用学解释.doc

Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Interpretation as Pragmatics. Londres?: MacMillan, 1999. 1-34; 238-239. 1 Pragmatics of Interpretation COME INTO THE CLASSROOM, MAUD This is our first day in the English department at the University of Nanterre. We are headed, with eager step (there is a queue in front of the lift) and panting heart (three floors is a long way up), towards a class with the forbidding name of GI-I00, Lire un texte’, where we are hoping to acquire the rudiments of literary interpretation – to indulge in the practice, and to revel in the achievement (for the term, like many nouns derived from verbs, representation for The class begins in a straightforward enough manner. There is a hand-out: the three pages of a story by Graham Greene, I Spy,1 squeezed onto a single sheet. Clearly, the text has been chosen not only for its excellence (it is indeed a justly famous story), but for its brevity - it can be read in class, which is exactly what we are asked to do. After ten minutes of shuffling of feet, snuffling and aborted coughs, the proceedings begin. The lecturer offers to parse and give a lexical glossing of the text: this is not our first language, our command of it at the beginning of our first year is still shaky, although there are no difficult words or constructions in the text, for a sound pedagogic mind has presided over its choice. When the parsing is finished, the first task is set: we are asked to provide a brief literal summary of the story. Let me comply: the twelve-year-old narrator, in the dead of night, is stealing cigarettes from his fathers tobacco shop to indulge in his first illegal smoke. He is surprised by the unexpected return of his father, between two men in raincoats, who take him away again after customary jokes of the ‘not while we are on duty’ type have been passed. This, however, although a satisfactory enough summary of the action in [? 2] the story, is inadequate as an interpretation: it does not really say anything about the meanin