Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No.8, 2020

The Research Path and Developmental Direction of Pragmatic Logic

(Abstract)

Xiong Minghui

Pragmatic logic belongs to the interdisciplinary field of logic and linguistics, and its evolutionary process can be summarized as “two paths,” “three schemes” and “four stages.” The “two paths” are the normative-descriptive type of path moving toward pragmaticalization and the descriptive-normative type of depragmaticalization; the “three schemes” refers to the deductive logic scheme of zero-pragmatics, the inductive logic scheme of quasi-pragmatics, and the non-formal logic scheme of pragmaticalization; and the “four stages” refers to the four phases of “initiation of pragmatics,” “de-pragmaticalization,” “quasi-pragmaticalization,” and “the return to pragmatics.” So far, the two approaches to logic in pragmatics seem to be developing independently without mutual understanding. The core issue is dealing with the problem of pragmatics. Therefore, the in-depth development of logic in pragmatics needs to integrate the two traditional research approaches and thus open up a new direction for development.