2005年笔者有幸在福建省委组织部举办的出国访问学者考试选拔中获得前往美国纽约州立大学访学的机会，就教于该大学著名语言学者、《跨文化语用学》期刊主编、Istvan Kecskes教授，并在他的悉心指导下，利用该校所提供的便利的研究条件，广泛阅读并收集了大量有关语言学及语用学的学术著作和文章，回国后结合自己多年来在语言学教学与研究方面所积累的成果，撰写了这本《从语言到语用：理论与实践》。

该书以语言学研究中的语用研究为主线，对于近年来语用研究中的一些主要理论及相关语用原则进行了较为系统的介绍和评价。

序

前言

Part I Language

 Chapter 1 Importance of Language  

 1．1 Importance of Language  

 1．2 Functions of Language  

 Chapter 2 Definition of Language and Its Classifications  

 2．1 Definition of Language  

 2．2 Classifications of Language 

 Chapter 3 Properties of Language 

 3．1 Arbitrariness of Language 

 3．2 Duality of Language 

 3．3 Creativity of Language 

 3．4 Displacement of Language 

Part II Linguistics

 Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction to linguistics 

 1．1 Definition of Linguistics 

 1．2 A Brief History of Linguistics 

 Chapter 2 Main Branches of Linguistics 

 2．1 Phonetics 

 2．2 Phonology 

 2．3 Morphology 

 2．4 Syntax 

 2．5 Semantics 

 2．6 Pragmatics 

 Chapter 3 Macrolinguistics 

 3．1 Sociolinguistics 

 3．2 Psycholinguistics 

 3．3 Anthropological Linguistics 

 3．4 Fuzzy Linguistics 

 3．5 Applied Linguistics 

 3．6 Computational Linguistics 

Part III Pragmatics

 Chapter 1 A General View of Pragmatics 

 1．1 Wastebasket of Pragmatics 

 1．2 Context in Pragmatics 

 1．3 History and Definition of Pragmatics 

 1．4 Why the Necessity of Pragmatics Study? 

 Chapter 2 Some I mportant Terms in Pragmatics 

 2．1 Proposition，Truth Conditions and Propositional Logic 

 2．2 Deixis and Reference 

 2．2．1 Deixis 

 2．2．2 Reference 

 2．3 Anaphora，Cataphora and Principle of Economy 

 2．4 Presupposition 

 2．4．1 Presupposition and Entailment 

 2．4．2 Properties of Presupposition 

 2．4．3 Types of Presupposition

 2．5 Inference

 2．6 Salient Meaning

 Chapter 3 Speech Act

 3．1 Introduction

 3．2 Constative and Pefformative

 3．3 Explicit Performatives and Implicit Performatives

 3．4 IFIDs and Felicities

 3．5 Locutionary，Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts

 3．6 Speech Act Classification

 3．6．1 Austin’s Classification of Speech Acts

 3．6．2 Searle’s Classification of Speech Acts

 3．6．3 Assessment and Criticism of Speech Act Theon

 Chapter 4 Cooperative Principle 

 4．1 Cooperation and Cooperative PrinciFle

 4．2 Conversational Implicature

 4．2．1 Generalized Conversational Implieatures

 4．2．2 Particularized Conversational Implicatures 

 4．2．3 Properties of Conversational Implicatures

 4．3 Conventional Implicatures

 4．4 Cooperation，Implicatures and Metaphor

 4．5 Development of Cooperative Principle

 4．5．1 Criticism of Gricean CP

 4．5．2 Horn’s Theory on Conversational Implicatures

 4．5．3 Levinson’s Theory on Conversational Implicatures

 4．5．3．1 Q．implicatures

 4．5．3．2 I．implicatures

 4．5．3．3 M．implicatures

 Chapter 5 Politeness Principle and Face．saving Theory

 5．1 Politeness Principle(PP)

 5．1．1 Background to Politeness Principle 

 5．1．2 Main Contents of Politeness Principle 

 5．1．2．1 Definition and FunctioIl  

 5．1．2．2 Illocutionary Functions and Maxims of the PP

 5．1．2．2．1 Illocutionary Functions and Politeness

 5．1．2．2．2 Maxims of the PP

 5．1．3 Some Key Aspects to the Understanding of the PF

 5．1．3．1 Difference in the Importance of the Maxims and Sub—maxims

 5．1．3．2 Degree of Politeness

 5．1．3．3 Politeness and Context

 5．1．3．4 Politeness and Cuhure

 5．1．3．5 Metalinguistic Aspects of Politeness

 5．2 “Face．saving”Theory(FST)

 5．2．1 A Brief Introduction to FST

 5．2．2 Face—Threatening Act(FTA)

 5．2．3 Redressive Strategies

 5．2．3．1 Bald．on—record Strategy(without Redressive Action)

 5．2．3．2 Positive Politeness Strategy

 5．2．3．3 Negative Politeness Strategy

 5．2．3．4 Off-record Strategy

 5．2．3．5 Don’t—do．the—FTA Strategy

 5．2．4 Computing Weightiness of an FTA

 5．3 Conclusion

 Chapter 6 Relevance Theory

 6．1 Key Terms in RT

 6．1．1 Code Model&Inferential Mode

 6．1．2 Context

 6．1．3 Cognitive Environments&Manifestness

 6．1．4 Ostension&Ostensive．Inferential Communication

 6．1．5 Informative Intention&Communicative Intention

 6．1．6 Contextual Effects&Processing Efforts

 6．1．7 Implicatures and Explicatures

 6．2 Main Contents of RT

 6．2．1 Re’examination of Relationship between Language and Communication

 6．2．2 A Brief Account of the Process in Communication

 6．2．3 Degrees of Relevance and Relevance PrinciDle

 6．2．4 Inference and Context

 6．3 Conclusiorr

Part IV Practice：Some Papers on Pragmatics Research

 1 Interpretation of Scarlett，a Sequel to Gone with the Pragmatics’Perspective

 2 关于英语专业学生元语言意识的思考——基于英语专业学生本科毕业论文的调查报告

 3 从关联理论角度解读《斯佳丽》——兼谈续集文学创作及解读

 4 幽默交际失败原因的语用分析——兼谈鲁迅与林语堂、梁实秋之间的文字讼诤

 5 话语误解与关联理论——交际中“话语误解”现象的实例分析及其现实意义

 6 关联论对专业英语口语课堂教学的启示

 7 从幽默交际的角度重新审视语言经济原则

 8 指称现象的歧义性与幽默

 9 论Gone with the Wind一书中Rhett Butler形象的塑造

 10 跨文化交际中的假象——外语学习者交际中Back—channeling策略使用情况给我们的启示

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