Abstract The pragmatics envisaged by its founding father Charles Morris addresses issues of behavioral semiotics, of which multimodality and sign behavior are two building blocks. Decades of development in linguistic pragmatics has witnessed a continuous narrowing in scope. The narrowing reaps the benefit of sharp focus and in-depth research into some narrow topics. At the same time, it has resulted in some crucial areas, such as Umwelt, left barren. The paper first briefly reviews Morris’ envisaged pragmatics, which is argued to be essentially multimodal semiotic pragmatics in nature. Then it argues for embarking on Morris’ original program through reviewing researches, explicitly Morrisian or otherwise, that have already been converging toward this direction.

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莫里斯的失落语用学

摘要创立之父查尔斯·莫里斯（Charles Morris）提出的语用学解决了行为符号学的问题，其中行为学和符号行为是两个组成部分。语言语用学的几十年发展见证了范围的不断缩小。缩小范围可以从集中精力和对一些狭窄主题进行深入研究中受益。同时，它还导致一些关键领域，例如Umwelt贫瘠。本文首先简要回顾了莫里斯设想的语用学，认为它本质上是本质上的多峰符号学语用学。然后，它主张通过回顾已经朝着这个方向收敛的研究（明确地是莫里斯主义或其他）来着手进行莫里斯的原始计划。