Discourse pragmatics interprets the context-specific meaning of communicative events underlining texts in use. It is a cross-disciplinary study based on pragmatics, social linguistics and discourse analysis. This pape...Discourse pragmatics interprets the context-specific meaning of communicative events underlining texts in use. It is a cross-disciplinary study based on pragmatics, social linguistics and discourse analysis. This paper uses the theories and dynamic descriptions of conversation analysis and thematic structure analysis to examine two real texts for their textual and interpersonal meanings in order to illustrate the necessity as well as the feasibility of applying modern linguistic theories in transforming traditional methods of language teaching.展开更多
文摘Discourse pragmatics interprets the context-specific meaning of communicative events underlining texts in use. It is a cross-disciplinary study based on pragmatics, social linguistics and discourse analysis. This paper uses the theories and dynamic descriptions of conversation analysis and thematic structure analysis to examine two real texts for their textual and interpersonal meanings in order to illustrate the necessity as well as the feasibility of applying modern linguistic theories in transforming traditional methods of language teaching.
