The Pragmatic Strategies and Optimal Relevance in English Classroom Communications

This paper attempts to study the pragmatic strategies and optimal relevance in English classroom communications from the perspective of Cognitive Pragmatics. In classroom communicative settings, the speakers use the pragmatic strategies to manifest their communicative intentions and the hearers infer from this manifestation to achieve the optimal contextual effects. It is hoped that this analysis can provide some enlightenment in English oral teaching with the improvement of the students' pragmatic strategy ability and communicative ability.