语境是语用学的一个核心概念,它的内涵主要包括语言、文化及社交等语境知识。在阅读理解时,读者必须借助语境解决阅读中存在的实际问题,消除歧义和语用含糊、充实语义、合理推断,达到全面而准确的理解。为此,阅读教学中应着力培养学生的语用能力,加强文化语境和情景语境的教学,不断提高学生运用各种语境知识推导语用意义的能力。 Context is a core concept of pragmatics. Its connotation includes language, culture and social context knowledge. In reading comprehension, the reader must use the context to solve practical problems in reading, disambiguation and pragmatic ambiguity, enrich semantics, reasonable inference, to achieve a comprehensive and accurate understanding. Therefore, reading teaching should focus on cultivating students ’pragmatic competence, strengthening the teaching of cultural context and situational context, and constantly improving students’ abilities of using various contextual knowledge to derive pragmatic meaning.