批评语用学:目标、对象与方法

Critical Pragmatics:Aims,Objects and Methods

批评语用学是语用学的一个重要分支领域,自诞生以来并没有引起足够的重视。该领域主要考察社会语境中语言使用背后的意识形态、价值取向等问题,旨在弘扬合适的社会语用方式,批判语言使用背后的权力压制、社会偏见、政治或经济欺诈等。从事批评语用学研究,既可以针对具有积极社会意义的话语开展语用-语言学讨论,又可以面向带有消极社会意义的用语进行语用-语言学分析,其根本目的就是为社会语用文明建设做出贡献。

As an important area of pragmatic research,critical pragmatics has failed to attract adequate attention since its birth. Its studies are concemed with ideological orientations and value judgments reflected by language use in its socio-cultural context,with a view to advocating appropriate manners of social discourse and criticizing those social problems embedded in language use, such as power imposition, social discrimination, and political or economic fraud. It may have two opposite approaches：one may attempt pragmalinguistic discussions on discourses with positive social meanings, or one may conduct pragmalinguistic investigations into discourses with negative social meanings. Both approaches are meant to contribute to the construction of societal pragmatic civihzation.