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PragmaticsTeachingMaterialbyShermanZHENG
SECTIONISurveyChapter1DefinitionsandbackgroundIWhatispragmatics?Readp.3-4Pragmaticscanbeusefullydefinedasthestudyofhowutteranceshavemeaningsinsituations(Leech,1983).
Definitionsandbackground(1)Whenadiplomatsay“yes”,hemeans“perhaps”,whenhesays“perhapshemeans“no”;andwhenhesays“no”heisnodiplomatWhenaladysays“no”,shemeans“perhaps”,whenshesays“perhaps”shemeans“yes”andwhenshesays“yes”sheisnolady.(Voltaire)
DefinitionsandbackgroundIITheoriginandthehistoricalvagariesofthetermpragmatics ThemodernusageofthetermpragmaticsisattributabletothephilosopherCharlesMorris(1983),whowasconcernedtooutlinethegeneralshapeofascienceofsigns,orsemiotics.Withinsemiotics,Morrisdistinguishedthreedistinctbranchesofinquiry:syntactics(orsyntax),beingthestudyof“theformalrelationofsignstooneanother”,semantics,thestudyof“therelationofsignstotheobjectstowhichthesignsareapplicable”(theirdesignata),andpragmatics,thestudyoftherelationofsignstointerpreters”(Levinson,1983)
DefinitionsandbackgroundIIISemanticsandpragmatics Pragmaticsisthestudyofallthoseaspectsofmeaningnotcapturedinasmenatictheory. Or,asGazdar(1979:2)hasputit,assumingthatsemanticslimitedtothestatementoftruthconditions. Pragmaticshasasitstopicthoseaspectsofthemeaningofutteranceswhichcannotbeaccountedforbystraightforwardreferencetothetruthconditionsofthesentencesuttered.Putcrudely:PRAGMATICS=MEANING—TRUTHCONDITIONS.
Definitionsandbackground(2)Whatdoesxmean?(3)Whatdidyoumeanbyx? Semanticstraditionallydealswithmeaningasadyadicrelation,asin(2),whilepragmaticsdealswithmeaningasatriadicrelation,asin(3).Thusmeaninginpragmaticsisdefinedrelativetoaspeakeroruserofalanguage,whereasmeaningsinsemanticsisdefinedpurelyasapropertyofexpression
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