Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Pragmatics
- The study of 'invisible' meaning, or
how we recognize what is meant even
when it isn't actually said or written.
- Context
- Linguistic (co-text)
- The set of other words used in the same
phrase or sentence.
- Physical
- Our mental representation of the aspects of what is
physically out there that we use in arriving at an
interpretation.
- Time and place.
- Deixis
- Bits of language that we can only understand in
terms of the speaker´s intended meaning.
- Person deixis, spatial
deixis, temporal deixis.
- It, here, now.
- Reference
- An act by which a speaker (or writer) uses language to
enable a listener (or reader) to identify soomething.
- Proper nouns, nouns,
or pronouns.
- Inference
- Additional information used by the listener
to create a connection between what is said
and what must be meant.
- Anaphora
- Subsequent reference to an
already introduced entity.
- A puppy - The puppy
- Presupposition
- What a speaker assumes is true
or known by the listener.
- Speech acts
- Describe actions such as
'requesting', 'commanding',
'questioning' or 'onforming'.
- Direct and indirect speech acts
- Direct
- When we use a syntactic structure with its
respective function.
- Indirect
- Whenever one of the syntactic structures
is used with a function that is not proper
from that structure.
- Politeness
- Showing awereness of and
consideration for another
person's face.