The Applicability Analysis of Pragmatics in College English Teaching

This article firstly discusses the origin, content and main theories of pragmatics, namely, speech act theory and conversational implicature theory and relevance theory and then puts forward that the pragmatic knowledge should be stressed in college English teaching in order to deepen the students' pragmatic awareness and avoid the occurrence of pragmatic errors, thus improving the students' pragmatic competence.After the analysis of the three pragmatic theories on basis of teaching cases, it is found that pragmatics theory has a guiding significance to college English teaching practice and introducing the relevant theories of pragmatics in college English teaching can improve the learning efficiency and significantly enhance the students' discourse understanding and communication skills.