国外历史语用学研究述评

Studies on historical pragmatics abroad

国外历史语用学经过近二十年的发展,已从语用学的边缘学科发展为中心学科。文章首先结合英美学派和欧洲大陆学派的不同视角阐述历史语用学的学科界定和研究范围,综述该领域三大研究分支——语用语文学、历时语用学和社交语文学——的研究内容、研究路径和研究视角,并关注该领域在研究方法、历史语用-语言研究和历史社交语用研究三个方面的主要议题,结合近五年的研究情况分析其最新发展动态,最后在此基础上对该领域未来研究予以展望。

Through some 20 years of development,historical pragmatics has moved well beyond a peripheral discipline into a central one in pragmatics.This paper first presents the Anglo-American and Continental European scholars' different views on the definitions and scope of this discipline and then focuses on its three major research branches,namely,pragmaphilology,historical pragmatics and sociophilology.It summarizes major research topics,concerning the research methodology,historical pragmalinguistic investigation and historical sociopragmatic exploration.The paper concludes by analyzing the latest development of historical pragmatics and prospects for future research.