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Deception as a Pragmatic Strategy: An Adaptation-based Approach

HE Zi-ran 1, ZHANG Shu-ling2

(1. CLAL, Guangdong Foreign Studies University, Guangzhou 510420, China;
2. Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures, South China Normal University, Guangzhou
510631, China)
Abstract: Deception (DEC), as a pragmatic strategy of speech acts, has attracted great attention of many
scholars who conducted their research from different viewpoints like psychology, sociology and linguistic
pragmatics. After reviewing the past research from the above viewpoints and pointing out their achievements
and limitations, this paper attempts to apply Verschuerens adaptation theory to DEC as a pragmatic strategy of
speech acts. The authors conclude that DECs are actually the outcomes of linguistic choices interadaptable with
language usersmental world, social world and physical world.
Key words: deception; pragmatic strategy; speech acts; linguistic choices; adaptation theory

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