• Definition 2: • Pragmatics is the study of all those aspects of meaning not captured in a semantic theory. • 语用学是对所有那些未能纳入语意理论 的意义侧面的研究。
• Definition 3: • Pragmatics is the study of the relations between language and context that are basic to an account of language understanding. • 语用学是对语言和语用之间对于说明语 言理解来说是十分根本的那些关系的研 究。
Component vs. perspective分相论与 综观论
• • Component view of pragmatics Davis points out in his book Pragmatics: A Reader(1991) that pragmatics, like phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, is a component of linguistics. • Perspective view of pragmatics Verschueren(1999) proposes that pragmatics is not a component of linguistics, but a new way of looking at language. Pragmatics is specified as “a general cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on linguistic phenomena in relation to their usage in forms of behavior”(Verschueren,1999) 语用学是语言各个方面的功能总览, 即研究人类生活中语言的 认知、社会和文化的功能。