The Complementary Relation between Pragmatics and Systemic-Functional Grammar

Pragmatics and Systemic -functional Grammar (SFG) used to ignore each other and lack in communication, however, in certain aspects they are indeed in a position to complement each other. This paper mainly discusses on one hand the bases for the complementary relation between pragmatics and systemic -functional grammar (CR-P&SFG), on the other hand the main aspects concerning the CR-P&SFG. Pragmatics and SFG have common interests in function, context and meaning of language. On the other hand, the notions of presupposition and conversational implicature in pragmatics certainly benefit SFG; the semiotic and functional conceptions of language in SFG surely favor pragmatics.