（第9期，2013年6月14日）

2013年6月14日下午，北京师范大学外文学院语言学沙龙第九次活动在后主楼1020举行。

本沙龙的报告人是新西兰奥克兰大学的黄衍教授，主题为Neo-Gricean pragmatics:From anaphora through the Square of Opposition to relationship breakdown。黄衍教授首先介绍了以经典格赖斯语用学为基础的新格赖斯语用学理论；其次，以具体实例详细阐释了新格赖斯语用学理论在词汇学、语义学和句法学等语言学研究中的作用，如运用该理论解释词汇克隆（lexical coloning）、语义阶（semantic scale）等语言现象的语用意义；最后通过分析克林顿弹劾案件以及解释交际关系破裂现象，进一步证明了新赖斯语用学理论的解释和预测能力。

报告引起各位老师和同学的热烈讨论，尤其是汉语中存在的一些语用现象，如汉语是否和英语一样也有词汇克隆现象，如果存在其具体实现形式和语用意义与英语有何不同之处等。

本次沙龙取得圆满成功。同学们不仅感受到语用学的无限魅力和语言学研究的无穷乐趣，同时也深深地为黄教授的治学和处世之道所折服！

（张冉冉刘玉洁 报道）

参加本次沙龙的人员：召集人： 张树堂

外文学院语言学和应用语言学专业的老师、硕士研究生和博士研究生

附：黄衍教授讲座摘要

Neo-Gricean pragmatics:

From anaphora through theSquareof Oppositionto

relationship breakdown

Yan Huang

Pragmatics - the systematic study of language in use - is a rapidly developing discipline in linguistics. Since its inception, classical and neo-Gricean pragmatics has revolutionized pragmatic theorizing and has to date remained one of the foundation stones of contemporary thinking in linguistic pragmatics and the philosophy of language. In this lecture, I shall first outline a version of neo-Gricean pragmatics, which has put the classical Gricean pragmatic theory on a much more rigorous basis. I shall then assess the role this version of neo-Gricean pragmatics plays in effecting a radical simplification of the lexicon, semantics, and syntax in linguistic theory, utilizing some of my own research in these areas. Finally, I shall further demonstrate the predictive and explanatory power of the neo-Gricean pragmatic theory by showing how it can shed light on certain legal cases such as President Clinton’s impeachment trial and account for the communicative aspect of relationship breakdown.