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1、TheRelationandDifferencebetweenSemanticsandPragmaticsintheStudyofMeaningY20100131邵晓巍Abstract:Thetrichotomyofsyntax,semanticsandpragmaticsisoneofthemostpopularwaysofsubdividingthestudyofhumanlanguages.ItwasoriginallysuggestedbyCharlesMorrisinMorris(1938)andlateragaininarevisedforminMorris
2、(1946).Amongthethreesubdisciplinesoflinguistics,semanticsandpragmaticsaresocloseinthattheyarebothconcernedwiththestudyofmeaning.Evenso,theyaredifferentinthestudyofmeaning.Buttheircloserelationshiphasmadeitdifficulttosetaclearboundarybetweentheminthestudyofmeaningandthedistinctionbetweent
3、heminthisrespecthaspuzzledandisstillpuzzlinglinguistsandphilosophersoflanguage(Jef,2000).Thispapertriestoexplorepreliminarilytherelationanddifferencebetweensemanticsandpragmaticsinthestudyofmeaning.Keywords:semantics;pragmatics;relation;distinction1IntroductionIntheearly1970s,somelinguis
4、tsattemptedtotakesemanticsasthebasisforthestudyoflinguisticstoreplacethecentralpositionofsyntax.Asaresult,thismovementenhancestherapiddevelopmentofsemantics,whichfocusesonthestudyofmeaninginlanguage.Thefurtherstudyintosemanticsmadelinguistsrealizetheimportanceofcontextinthestudyofmeaning
5、.Oncecontextwastakenintoconsiderationinsemantics,theexistenceofpragmaticsasanindependentdisciplinehadbecomeinevitable.DiscussionoftherelationshipbetweensemanticsandpragmaticscandatebacktoMorris.SomescholarssuchasLeech,LevinsonandBachalsotriedtomakeadistinctionbetweenthetwo,butnoconsensus
6、hasbeenreachedtilltoday.2TherelationbetweensemanticsandpragmaticsSemanticsisthestudyofmeaningthatisusedtounderstandhumanexpressionthroughlanguage.Itfocusesontherelationbetweensignifiers,suchaswords,phrases,signs,andsymbols,andwhattheystandfor,theirdenotata.Pragmaticsisasubfieldoflinguist
7、icswhichstudiesthewaysinwhichcontextcontributestomeaning.Semanticsistheleveloflinguisticswhichhasbeenmostaffectedbypragmatics,buttherelationbetweensemantics(inthesenseofconceptualsemantics)andpragmaticshasremainedamatteroffundamentaldisagreement.Threelogicallydistinctposi
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