认知语用学是融合认知语言学心理认知机制与语用学语境、言语行为等核心要素的新兴交叉学科,为近40年来语言学研究发展的热点领域。本文通过对比和考察对相关文献进行了描述性统计分析,旨在系统化厘清国外认知语用学研究的发展脉络、核心议题与研究前沿。研究发现:该领域发展历经三个阶段——1985~1999年理论奠基阶段、2000~2010年理论深化与创新阶段和2011年至今实证拓展与跨学科融合阶段。核心议题涵盖语用推理机制、语境意义的心理建构与动态整合、模块化之争、社会文化转向、认知语用能力评估与干预五个维度。当前研究面临的主要问题包括:概念界定存在认知与语用双路径的分歧、双重维度难以实现“稳定均衡”、意义建构机制缺乏系统性解释框架、应用研究领域广泛但深度不足、新兴实证方法面临标准化挑战。最后,本文指出认知语用学正呈现理论综合化、跨学科融合深化、研究对象多模态化、理论与实践互动强化四大趋势。因此,本研究认为,认知语用学须在保持理论深度的同时拥抱跨学科协作,通过方法论创新与理论整合,实现其作为认知与语用交互桥梁的学科使命。

Cognitive pragmatics is an emerging interdisciplinary subject that integrates the psychological cognitive mechanisms of cognitive linguistics with core elements of pragmatics such as context and speech acts. Over the past four decades, it has developed into a hot research area in the development of linguistics. This paper employs descriptive statistical analysis through the comparison and examination of relevant literature, with the aim of systematically clarifying the developmental trajectory, core issues, and current frontiers of cognitive pragmatics research abroad. Research findings indicate that the field has undergone three de velopmental phases: the theoretical foundation phase (1985-1999), the theoretical deepening and innovative phase (2000-2010), and the phase of empirical expansion and interdisciplinary integration (2011 to present). Core issues span five dimensions: mechanisms of pragmatic reasoning, the psychological construction and dynamic integration of contextual meaning, the modularity debate, the sociocultural turn, and the assessment and intervention of cognitive-pragmatic competencies. Current research faces several major problems, including: divergences between cognitive and pragmatic approaches regarding conceptual definitions, difficulties in achieving a “stable equilibrium” across dual dimensions, the lack of a systematic explanatory framework for meaning-construction mechanisms, abroad scope of applied research but insufficient depth, and standardization challenges for emerging empirical methods. Finally, this paper identifies four major trends in cognitive pragmatics: theoretical integration, deepening interdisciplinary convergence, the multimodality of research subjects, and strengthened interaction between theory and practice. The study argues that cognitive pragmatics must embrace interdisciplinary collaboration while maintaining theoretical depth, and through methodological innovation and theoretical integration, to fulfill its disciplinary mission as a bridge between cognition and pragmatics.