By analyzing and researching the connotation of salience of linguistic adaptation processes involved cognitive and social factors,this paper tries to explain its relation with the linguistic choice in translation,code-switching,irony,and discourse generation in linguistic communication.

The theory of linguistic adaptation, which Jef Verschueren initiated in 1987 and developed in 1999, claims that pragmatic studies should be directed to the exploration into the functioning mechanism of language, i.

This thesis, based on Verschueren’s theory of linguistic adaptation, is a pragmatic analysis of tutor’s Chinese English codeswitching in postgraduate class.

Furthermore,this paper put forwards the principles of speech communication: context adaptation principle and semantic and pragmatic derivative principle.

The deficient information,which results in barrier to proper comprehension,should be amplified through contextual adaptation measures,i.

On the basis of the contextual correlates of adaptability,the paper discusses the contextual adaptation in translating movie titles from English to Chinese,i.

By virtue of the contextual adaptability theory,the paper analyzes the translation of the Chinese character "xiao" in the 26th chapter of The Story of the Stone by the English translator Hawkes,and presents a notion that this pragmatic theory can also be applied in literature translation.

Based on Jef Verschueren\'s theory of contextual adaptability,Professor Li Yunxing advanced a new translation context model:theory of contextual adaptability in his article On Translation Context.