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1、Chapter1CognitivePragmatics:AnOverviewPresentedby:LindaWhatis“cognition”?Whatispragmatics?Cognition:Thementalactionorprocessofacquiringknowledgeandunderstandingthroughthought,experience,andthesenses.(NewOxford)PragmaticsisoftendescribedasthestudyoflanguageuseIntroductionAnoverviewofPragmaticsFrom

2、PhilosophyofLanguagetoCognitiveScienceTheCentralIssuesofCognitivePragamticsTheApproachestoCognitivePragmaticsTheRelationshipbetweenCognitivePragmaticsandCognitiveLinguistics1.IntroductionInthischapterwewillbrieflyhighlightarangeofcloselyrelated,centralcognitivepragmaticsissuesandapproaches,includ

3、ingthephilosophicaloriginsofthetermpragmatics,themaincontributionsofcognitivepragmatics,theapproachestocognitivepragmatics,therelationshipbetweencognitivepragmaticsandcognitivelinguisticsandthedevelopingtrendsofcognitivepragmatics.Themainpurposeofthisprojectistoprovideaframeworkofhowpeopleunderst

4、andutterancesfromacognitiveperspective2.AnOverviewofPragmatics2.1TheOriginsoftheTerm“Pragmatics”ReferencestopragmaticsarefoundinphilosophysinceCharlesMorris’FoundationsoftheTheoryofSignsinwhichpragmaticsisdefinedasthestudyoftherelationsbetweensignsandtheirinterpreters.Morrisisfamousforhistrichoto

5、mysyntax,semanticsandpragmatics.AfterMorris’sversionoftrichotomy,theGermanphilosopherandlogicianRudolfCarnapinhisbookIntroductiontoSemanticsreformulatedthetrichotomyasfollows:Ifinaninvestigationexplicitreferenceismadetothespeakerortheuserofthelanguage,thenweassignit(theinvestigation)tothefieldofp

6、ragmatics.Ifweabstractfromtheuserofthelanguageandanalyzeonlytheexpressionsandtheirdesignation,weareinthefieldofsemantics.And,finally,ifweabstractfromthedesignationalsoandanalyzeonlytherelationsbetweentheexpressions,weareinsyntax.2.2DefinationofPragmaticsPragmaticsisthestudyofallthoseaspectsofmean

7、ingnotcapturedinasemantictheory.(Levinson)OrasGazdarhasputit,assumingthatsemanticsislimitiedtothestatementoftruthconditions:Pragmaticshasasitstopicthoseaspectsofthemeaningofutteranceswhichcannotbeaccountedforbystraight