Mao Tiaoyuan
Department of Language and Literature, Soochow University, Jiangsu, China.
Front Psychol. 2021 Aug 17;12:690550. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.690550. eCollection 2021.
How to use language properly and acquire the capacity for language use has become the focus of linguists and philosophers for centuries. Therefore, pragmatic competence underlying language use arouses enormous interests of language acquisition practitioners. This study reveals the core properties of various models or theories of pragmatic competence, such as the communicative componential models, the form-function mapping proposal of the functionalist, the tripartite cognitive model, and the current integrated model of pragmatic competence. The common core includes (but not limited to) integration of thought and communication, one uniform pragmatic mechanism, dynamic form-function mapping, and complementarity between grammatical and pragmatic competences. With the findings as a departure, a brief outline for further investigation of pragmatic competence is proposed finally, including pathological and neurobiological examination of pragmatic competence.
几个世纪以来，如何正确使用语言并获得语言运用能力一直是语言学家和哲学家关注的焦点。因此，语言使用背后的语用能力引起了语言习得研究者的极大兴趣。本研究揭示了各种语用能力模型或理论的核心特性，如交际成分模型、功能主义者的形式-功能映射提议、三方认知模型以及当前的语用能力综合模型。其共同核心包括（但不限于）思维与交际的整合、统一的语用机制、动态的形式-功能映射以及语法能力与语用能力之间的互补性。基于这些研究结果，最后提出了进一步研究语用能力的简要概述，包括语用能力的病理学和神经生物学检查。
