The Study Of Pragmatic Information In Chinese Learning Dictionaries

Pragmatics, as a relatively new branch of linguistics, has been developing rapidly in recent decades. More and more lexicographers both at home and abroad have done some studies on pragmatics application to lexicography. From the perspective of pragmatics, this thesis investigates the types and presentation of pragmatic information in Chinese learners’dictionaries on the basis of the context theory, the speech act theory and the politeness principle. In a way, this whole research may shed light on how to enrich pragmatic information in future dictionarie.This article is divided into five parts:The first chapter, mainly introduce the research object, purpose, significance and methods. According to the review of the related research, we clear the range of pragmatics information concept. The second chapter, we make a comprehensive description of pragmatic information in Chinese learner’s dictionaries in four aspects: language users, mental world, social world and physical world. The third chapter, we analyze the pragmatic information incorporation methods mainly from the perspective of explanation, glosses, labels, example, usages and synonym discriminations. The fourth chapter, we give suggestions, which is helpful to improve the coverage of pragmatic information in the dictionary, after comparison among three dictionaries in such aspects as pragmatic vocabulary, pragmatic setting items, pragmatic information content and pragmatic incorporation methods. The fifth chapter, we give an account of what pragmatic information is by presenting the theoretical framework. On the basis of this framework, we give detailed opinion on themacrostructure, microstructure and mediostructure model construction.