A Study On English Teachers' Utterance-Building In Classroom Teaching

Language use is a kind of social behavior, which refers to people producing coherent utterances in a particular situation, to a particular person and for a particular purpose. It does not refer to producing abstract sentences isolated from contexts. Language use always takes place in context. Context is a very important concept and a fruitful topic for study in the field of modern linguistics. Domestic and foreign scholars, ancient or contemporary, have made deep and comprehensive studies of context. Context plays a very important role in language use. It has two basic functions: restrictive function and interpretive function. To be more specific, the former refers to that context makes restrictions on the speaker's utterance production whereas the latter refers to that context has interpretive effects in the hearer's utterance interpretation. Therefore, from the perspective of the speaker, the basic thing to do is adapt to context. Contextual adaptation is a general rule of language use and a basic, important pragmatic principle as well. As for contextual adaptation, the first thing people should make sure is what kind of context will be adapted to and how they adapt.Both the systemic-functional linguistics and relevance theory value the study of context. Halliday and others took the socio-cultural perspective to argue that contexts can generally be classified into two kinds: context of culture and context of situation. Context of culture refers to the patterns of human behaviors in a particular cultural background and context of situation refers to the field, tenor and mode of discourse, which are relevant to verbal communication. Context of situation is the realized manifestation of...