言语行为理论综述

A General Overview of Speech Act Theory

言语行为理论是由英国哲学家奥斯汀(Austin)于20世纪50年代末首先提出的,美国语言哲学家塞尔(Searle)在批判奥斯汀理论的基础上发展了言语行为理论并提出了间接言语行为理论。

The speech act theory was first proposed by Austin, an English philosopher, in 1950s. Then American linguist Searle, criticized the theory and further developed it, hereby putting forward indirect speech act theory. Since pragmatics was regarded as a new branch of linguistics, the theory, as a core subject, aroused extensive interests among scholars. It mainly deals with the problem of how language is used to “act”, instead of what it “refers to”, exemplifying an new outlook of linguistic—— “performing by speaking”.