A Survey of Lexical-pragmatics Studies in China

This paper aims at a survey and review of the studies of lexical units in pragmatic use in China,including three aspects:(1)absorbing and applying the achievements of foreign scholars on lexical pragmatics;(2)studying the pragmatic aspects of lexical units in dynamic use and making contrastive analysis of lexical units in use in both Chinese and foreign languages;(3)applying the theory to the practical areas such as lexical teaching and translation.