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1、Introduction check your understanding 1. f Syntax and semantics each have their own strengths. 2. f Pragmatics is also interested in how language use affects the language system. 3. t 4. f 5. t In-Class Activities 1. ASK (1) Yes, hes coming.(2) Yes. No, he isnt coming(3) His knowledge about whether
2、Pat likes cognitive linguistics or not. 2. (1) a. John is obviously not Hitler. There is only one Hitler in the world. b. Golf as an inanimate object cant play a human being (John).c. It is a case of tautology that conveys no new information. d. “Idea ” doesn t have color and cant sleep since it is
3、inanimate. The whole sentence doesnt make sense.(2) a. it can be used for communication in a context where John shares some personality with Hitler. b. when John is a poor player of golf. c. in a context where a certain boy has done something wrong (out of naughtiness). (3) when the sentence is used
4、 in poetry to personalize the word idea. 3.(1) a. In an entrance of a park. b. In the restroom of some public places like an airport. 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 1 页，共 22 页a. People are forbidden to bring dogs into the park. b. This place is for adults to change infant diapers.4.
5、(1) Here the speaker wants to express his complaint that the couple are talking too loudly (and the implicit request for them to stop talking). (2) By saying so, the young man wants to convey their refusal to “my ” request.The background knowledge we need is that since it is usually impolite to list
6、en to other people private conversation, it is normal that “I ” can t hear a word (thus the couple can continue their talk). 5.(1) This notice implies that all those who jump the red light are uncivilized, whatever the reason. (2)讲卫生的人不会随便吐痰。6. (1) This is an advertisement for a holiday inn and its
7、food is so delicious that it can make the customers wife jealous. The “French toast” probably means a type of specialty provided by this holiday inn. (2) C: 你去哪里？吃饭了没？E: How are you? How s everything going?7. (1) He means he doesnt speak French.(2) Russian majors dont speak French. (3) Yes. It helps
8、 to indicate a negative answer. 8. (1) a. He uses “that ” under the assumption that his mom knows which letter is being referred to. b. He uses an imperative sentence to ask her mother to close the window, which is impolite. (2) Johnny: Mom, Ping Ping is coming to visit us this afternnoon. Mother: W
9、ho is Ping Ping? 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 2 页，共 22 页(3) Wang: Its not my fault, is it?Li: Yes. - Native speaker: Hi, you look good. Zhang: Not good, not good at all. Exercises Task3.1. when we get someone to do something, we tend to minimize the effort to be involved, but when
10、we complain we tend to exaggerate the complaint. People want to be polite by mitigating(缓解,减轻,平静)the imposition, which is face-threatening. 2. The first imperative is a general grammatical form, but the second, though still an imperative, can be used to sound more polite because of the addition of w
11、ill you 3. (in the office) Boss: Come to my office later. Clerk: Yes, sir. - (during the afternoon tea) Boss: How is your dad, Tom? Clerk: Hes fine. Thanks, Pat.4. He wants to suggest that he did not break the window because he was engaged with (? ) in something else in other places. 5. In the novel
12、 The Catcher in the Rye, Holden, a middle school student always breaks the pragmatic conventions and in that way shows his rebellion.6. While we teach English to Chinese students, we not only impart linguistic information (phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax of English) but also pragmatic i
13、nformation (appropriate use of English in dynamic context). For instance, how we can use the question tag( 反了？ tag questions ) to sound more tentative and be polite. Unit 1精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 3 页，共 22 页Check your understanding 1. f That is the view held by John Austin in t
14、he early stage. 2. f Implicit performative utterances do not have a performative verb. 3. f 4. f The completion of the perlocutionary act requires the addressees cooperation.5. t In-Class Activities1.(1) If youve ever said “I promise” or “I apologize”, you have performed those actions by the simple
15、act of saying them. But “I know ” and “I believe” are declarative. Saying them does not bring about any immediate change in the belief or knowledge of the speaker. (2) a. I wish you a great success. I admit Im wrong.b. I misunderstand your point. I see what you mean. (3) Yes. For example, when we sa
16、y “我在这里向你道歉 ” ，we are performing the act of apologizing.(?) 2.(1) “A full apology” here means a wholly performative utterance of apology like “We apologize to the Chinese government and the Chinese people”. Indeed, “sorry ” is not a performative verb. (2) To some extent, “sorry ” can implicitly perf
17、orm the act of apology.3. (1) The kidnapper intends to perform the acts of threatening and requiring. (2) He wants to make his words sound like a n advice instead of a threatening. 4. (1) a. locutionary act: the act of verbally saying “Today is not a free admission day”.illocutionary act: it implici
18、tly requires people to pay the admission fee. perlocutionary act: people pay the admission fee (if at all). b. locutionary act: the act of verbally saying “Thank you for your generous donation and your support”.illocutionary act: it implicitly urges people to donate. perlocutionary act: people donat
19、e money (if at all). a Admission fee required today bWe expect your generous donation and your support The first is chosen to be less imposing . The second is chosen to attractpeople s donation. 5. (1) No, it is not a verdictive. It is just an advertisement from s (a) hotel whose name happens to be
20、“Jurys ”.(2) The proprietor plays a game of words to attract customers. ExercisesTask 3 1. 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 4 页，共 22 页a. constative ? locution: “No smoking in this area”. Illocution: Forbidding people from smoking here. Perlocution: People do not smoke here. b. constati
21、ve. Locution: “Ticket passengers only”. Illocution: Asking passengers to buy tickets if they want to (enter the museum). Perlocution: Passengers buy tickets to enter the museum. c. constative. Locution: “Token vending machine”. Illocution: Informing the public of the fact that they can buy tokens th
22、rough this machine. Perlocution: People buy tokens through this machine (if at all). 2. Yes. It solves the problem that constatives can indeed be regarded as implicit ways of doing things. Thus, all utterances are “performative” in essence.Yes, I agree. Suppose A said to B “it s stuffy here”. The ac
23、tual effect may be that A is understood to be complaining, but the intended effect is that someone should open the window or the door and it may bring B to perform the act instead of letting him just listen to As complaint.3. (1)a, (2)a, and(3)a are performative utterances and can stand the test “he
24、reby ”. However, in (1)b, (1)c and (2)b, (2)c, “know” , “think ”, “amuse ” and “flatter” are not performative verbs. In (3)b, the third person subject is used. In (3)c, simple past tense is used. 4. Both verdictives and exertives involve a demonstration of powers, rights, or influence. However, verd
25、ictives have the illocutionary force of issuing a formal or official judgment and giving a verdict, while exertives involve making decisions in favor of or against a certain course of action, or advocacy of it. 5. These utterances are not true or false, that is, not truth-evaluable. The uttering of
26、them on formal occasions is or is part of the doing of a certain kind of action, the performance of which, again, would not normally be described as just “saying ” or “describing something (cf. Austin 1962, 5).e.g. “This meeting is now adjourned.”“The court is now in session.”“This church is hereby
27、de-sanctified. ” 批准,认可,使合法化Unit2Check your understanding 1. f It is criticized as lacking criteria for classification. 2. f The hearer is held responsible. 3. f 4. t 5. f In-Class Activities1. 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 5 页，共 22 页(1) No, they are essentially directives. (2) “ 你能帮
28、我还书吗，谢谢哦。”“We ll be very grateful for your presence.”(3) Because they expect other peoples compliance instead of refusals. One feels indebted感激的 , 受惠的 , 蒙恩的 if one does not comply with the request. 2. (1) Commissives (2) Yes. The second promise is achieved with a condition which may turn the promise
29、 (a commissive) into a requirement (a directive). 3. (1) No. Utterance a is a threat. Utterance b involves something that the speaker cannot xcontrol. Utterance c describes something in the past rather than something that the speaker will do in the future. Utterance d involves an act that the hearer
30、 rather than the speaker will do in the future. Utterance e has a third person as the subject. Utterance f is a statement about something that happened in the past. (2) a. propositional content condition (what is said is about something that the speaker has done wrongly); b. sincerity condition (the
31、 speaker is serious or sincere in making the apology; c. preparatory conditions (e.g. the person who is apologizing should have made mistakes) d. essential condition (both sides understand that what the speaker says is an apology). Zhang: 这件事你不应这样处理的。Li: 好嘛，算我错了行了吧。where the speaker is not sincere 4
32、. (1) The customer when he says there is a fly in my soup (which is meant to be a complaint). (2) Because saying that can normally attract the waiters attention and the waiter knows what to do in a context like this. Yes. Sometimes, we speak indirectly to save our or others face.(3) Yes, I agree wit
33、h her. Hearing the customers words, the waiter may not take it seriously (if he is not joking). 5. (1) The role of the underlined part is explaining the reason of the refusal so that Andy will accept Jacks refusal more readily. Not necessarily. A white lie also does the same trick. (2) a. Calling on
34、 people to save water. b. Denying people the right to park here. The “irrelevant” information is used to enhance the chances of successfully performing the directive acts. ExercisesTask3. 1. 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 6 页，共 22 页a. Austin was a leading exponent of analytical or Or
35、dinary Language philosophy. His work in the 1950s provided both a theoretical outline and the terminology for the modern study of speech acts developed subsequently. He was the initiator of the speech act theory. He drew the distinction between constative utterances and performative utterances, alth
36、ough he latter discarded the distinction. He introduced the trichotomy of locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act. John Searle is widely noted for his contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and social philosophy. Searle has introduced the notion of indirect
37、 speech act . He has reclassified illocutionary acts. He has developed the theory into a general theory about human communication. b. Speech act sequence; responsive acts. 2. No. Threatening seems to be a directive as well as a commissive act. Open. 3.Learn how to do speech acts in L2. Doing the sam
38、e speech act in L1 and L2 may not be the same. 4.Depends on whether the sincerity condition is violated or not. 5. a. declaration b. representative c. representative d. directive e. expressive f. commissive g. directive h. commissive i. declaration 6. “Excuse me” is usually used to interrupt other p
39、eople, so its preparatory condition is that there are others talking about or doing something, when the speakers interruption is not expected. However, “sorry ” is used in a different situation, and its preparatory condition is that the speaker has made a mistake. 7. Effectiveness: abcd other things
40、 being equal Politeness: abcd other things being equal 8. a. It runs counter to the preparatory condition that the door must be closed at the moment. b. It goes against the sincerity condition. It is felicitous as an act of thanking c. It goes against the preparatory condition that what the speaker
41、is going to do must be to the hearers disadvantage yet refusing to eat dissert is not.Unit 3Check your understanding 1. f 2. f 3. f 4. f 5. f In-Class Activities1 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 7 页，共 22 页(1) a. direct answer about his fathers professionb. His father can help. c. His
42、father cannot help. (2) A: Your father must be very great. B: He is a lawyer. - A: Does your father earn a lot of money B: He is a lawyer. 2. (1) Both of them are implicit rather than stated by the actual meaning of the words. (2) An implicature can be part of sentence meaning or dependent on conver
43、sationalcontext, and can be conventional or unconventional . But connotation is conventional and attached to words. (3) “Fox” can connote cunningness. When we say “he is a fox” in response to “what do you think of Jack?”, we indicate that Jack is cunning like a fox.3. (1) Yes, it implies that Jack h
44、as one and only one brother. (2) Entailments are true whenever the statement uttered is true, but different implicatures may be derived when the sentence is used in different contexts. No. Yes. For instance, Jack has a brother; indeed, he has two. (3) A: Jack must be spoiled by his parents. B: Jack
45、has a brother. 4. (1) cancelability or defeasibility. (2) Yes. The words “not yet ” has the conventional implicature that something is possible after the given time. 5. (1) Jack may refill his car in the garage. (2) Yes, the garage may be closed at the moment. (3) a. The sea foods are fresh. / Do bu
46、y the sea foods. b. You can win here. /Play here. 6. (1) Hearer meaning is the hearers understanding of the speakers utterance. (2) A: Tom is quite clever in that aspect. B: I agree. Hes the cleverest person Ive ever seen.A: But I dont mean he is really clever in that aspect. (3) a. Hearers and spea
47、kers background knowledge may be different. b. Their expectations, beliefs, and the like may be different. 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 8 页，共 22 页Exercises Task3 1. a. There is convention of usage in natural language. b. Today I declare you husband and wife. He is at sixs and seven
48、s. 2. A: Are you happy. B: Yes. A: Are you happy? B: Yes. Quite, quite. There are other possibilities. E.g. Speakers mean less than what they say. A: Are you happy. B: Yes. I am the happiest person in the world. 3. Saying does not necessarily amount to the same thing as meaning. By saying one thing
49、a speaker might mean another thing entirely. There is a sense of saying on which you cant say anything without meaning something. 4. A: She is a charming lady. I mean only when she smiles. By saying the first sentence, A may imply he is attracted by the lady, but by adding the second sentence he den
50、ies the implicature. 5. No. Yes. a. Jack: Lets go out drinking tonight. Jane: My grandma is ill. (But, my mother is coming) b. Jack: How did Philip and Pike do in the Olympics? Jane: Philip won a medal. Obviously, a has a particularized implicature and b has a generalized implicature. It is comparat