Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Differences between semantics and
pragmatics
- Semantics
- Semantics is a sub discipline of linguistics which
focuses on the study of meaning.
- It is about studying language in
isolation and not language in use.
- Looks at meaning in isolation.
- It is not so much a practical topic but
one that requires thinking rather
than doing and does not really
require any experiments
- Areas of semantic
- Symbol and referent,
conception of
meaning, dennotation,
connotation,
implication,
epistemology.
- Pragmatics
- Pragmatics studies how people comprehend
and produce a communicative act or speech act
in a concrete speech situation which is usually a
conversation
- Pragmatics studies how people comprehend
and produce a communicative act or speech
act in a concrete speech situation which is
usually a conversation.
- Areas of pragmatic
- Felicity conditions,
conversational
implicature,
politeness, phatic
tokens, deixis.