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1、模糊语言的语用功能及其对英语教学的启示【Abstract】Vaguenessisoneoftheessentialpropertiesoflanguage.Linguistsconsidervaguenesstobeofcrucialimportanceforitsefficientusageineverydaycommunication.Thispaperincludesawidelyexistingphenomenoninhumancommunication---vaguelanguageanditspragm
2、aticfunction.Itiscomposedofsixparts,withChapterFiveasitscorewhichapplytheuseofvaguelanguageinEnglishteaching.Inthehopeofhavingacleardefinitionofvagueness,theauthorfirsttriestotellthedifferencebetweenthreeconfusingconcepts---vagueness,ambiguity,andgenerality.Be
3、foretheauthor’sversionofthedefinitionisgiven,heshowsdifferentopinionsofdifferentlinguistsaboutthedefinitionsoastohaveabetterunderstandingofthedefinitionofvagueness.Thenthepaperstudiesvaguelanguagefromthepragmaticperspective,observingthetwomainpragmaticprincipl
4、es:“CooperativePrinciple”and“PolitenessPrinciple”andseehowthetwoprinciplesexplaintheadoptationofvaguelanguageinpeople’sdailylife.Inthenextpartofthispaper,itcentersonitscommunicativefunctions:givingrightamountofinformation,deliberatelywithholdinginformation,etc
5、.Thispaperholdsthatvaguelanguage,justlikepreciselanguage,isalsoausefulmeansofexchangingideas.Theappropriateuseofvaguelanguagedoesnothinderanyeffectivelanguagecommunication.Instead,itcan,inmanycases,makelinguisticexpressionsmorenaturalandgraceful;conveyshumanfe
6、elingandthoughtsmoreeffectively.Thencomesthemostimportantandenlighteningpart,thepracticaluseofvaguelanguageinEnglishteaching.Thatistosay,aconsciousandmeaningfuluseofvaguelanguagewouldgreatlyhelptheteachertoaccomplishthegoalofeffectiveteaching.Fromthepointofvie
7、wofpragmatics,acomprehensive,systematicstudyofvaguelanguagewillbeofvitalimportanceinlearningandteachingEnglish.【KeyWords】vaguelanguage;Pragmatics;communication;pragmaticfunction;teaching【摘要】16模糊性是自然语言的基本属性之一，语言学家们指出语言的模糊性并不是无足轻重，制造障碍的因素，相反它保证了交际的有效进行。本文介绍了一种广泛
8、存在于人类言语交际中的语言现象---模糊语言，并对其语用功能进行分析。本文由六个章节组成，第五章是重点，主要讲述模糊语言在英语教学中的运用。作者希望给出模糊语言一个清楚的定义，先分辨了三个易混淆的概念----模糊性、歧义性及概括性。作者还考察了不同的语言学家给模糊性下的各自不同的定义，然后给出自己的定义，这样让读者才能更好地了解什么是模糊语言。而后文章从语用
