Grice＇s conversational implicatures have aroused far more attention in linguistics than have his conventional implicatures. The basic idea is that language-activity, most typically, is a kind of rational （and purpos...Grice＇s conversational implicatures have aroused far more attention in linguistics than have his conventional implicatures. The basic idea is that language-activity, most typically, is a kind of rational （and purposive） social interaction governed by the principle of co-operation. In what may now be regarded as his classic formulation of this principle, Grice recognized several kinds of co-operation which he grounded under the headings of quantity, quality, relation and manner. Each of these comprises a set of one or more subprinciples, formulated by Grice as prescriptive maxim, which participants normally obey, but may on occasion flout or violate. Those were analyzed and given examples in sentences and text in this paper.展开更多
This study investigates the communicative competence of Chinese students in a British university, and the main purposes of the study are to find out more about Chinese students＇ difficulties in communication and to e...This study investigates the communicative competence of Chinese students in a British university, and the main purposes of the study are to find out more about Chinese students＇ difficulties in communication and to explore learning strategies of developing communicative competence. The research results show that Chinese students had both linguistic and socio-cultural problems in communication. Two case studies are presented of good and less good communicators to show up different patterns of communicative performance and learning strategies. In conclusion, a range of findings support the statement that attitudes, motivation and immersion were important in the development of communicative competence.展开更多
This research aims to examine Chinese EFL learners' performance on a listening comprehension task that focused on linguistic and pragmatic comprehension.Linguistic comprehension requires the listener to understand...This research aims to examine Chinese EFL learners' performance on a listening comprehension task that focused on linguistic and pragmatic comprehension.Linguistic comprehension requires the listener to understand vocabulary,syntax and other linguistic information,while pragmatic comprehension asks for the listener to understand contextual information,such as the role and status of the interlocutor(Rost 2002).An independent Sample T-test and a correlational study were conducted to explore two main problems.The first one dealt with whether there were developmental differences in the processing of pragmatic meaning and linguistic meaning across two groups of EFL learners with high and low proficiency and their comprehension of two subcomponents of pragmatic meaning — speech acts processing and conversational implicature processing.The second one explored the relationship between comprehension of pragmatic meaning and linguistic meaning,and the relationship between the two subcomponents.展开更多
文摘Grice＇s conversational implicatures have aroused far more attention in linguistics than have his conventional implicatures. The basic idea is that language-activity, most typically, is a kind of rational （and purposive） social interaction governed by the principle of co-operation. In what may now be regarded as his classic formulation of this principle, Grice recognized several kinds of co-operation which he grounded under the headings of quantity, quality, relation and manner. Each of these comprises a set of one or more subprinciples, formulated by Grice as prescriptive maxim, which participants normally obey, but may on occasion flout or violate. Those were analyzed and given examples in sentences and text in this paper.
文摘This study investigates the communicative competence of Chinese students in a British university, and the main purposes of the study are to find out more about Chinese students＇ difficulties in communication and to explore learning strategies of developing communicative competence. The research results show that Chinese students had both linguistic and socio-cultural problems in communication. Two case studies are presented of good and less good communicators to show up different patterns of communicative performance and learning strategies. In conclusion, a range of findings support the statement that attitudes, motivation and immersion were important in the development of communicative competence.
文摘This research aims to examine Chinese EFL learners' performance on a listening comprehension task that focused on linguistic and pragmatic comprehension.Linguistic comprehension requires the listener to understand vocabulary,syntax and other linguistic information,while pragmatic comprehension asks for the listener to understand contextual information,such as the role and status of the interlocutor(Rost 2002).An independent Sample T-test and a correlational study were conducted to explore two main problems.The first one dealt with whether there were developmental differences in the processing of pragmatic meaning and linguistic meaning across two groups of EFL learners with high and low proficiency and their comprehension of two subcomponents of pragmatic meaning — speech acts processing and conversational implicature processing.The second one explored the relationship between comprehension of pragmatic meaning and linguistic meaning,and the relationship between the two subcomponents.
