Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PRAGMATICS
- What is pragmatics?
- Is the study of the
aspects of meaning
and other features
of the context of
utterance.
- Pragmatics involve
three major
communication skills:
- Using
language
- for
different
purposes
- informing
(e.g., I'm
going to get
a cookie)
- demanding
(e.g., Give
me a
cookie)
- Changing
language
- according to
the needs of
a listener or
situation
- talking
differently to
a baby than to
an adult
- Speaking differently
in a classroom than
on a playground
- Following
rules
- for
conversations
and storytelling
- Introducing
topics of
conversation
- These rules may
vary across
cultures and
within cultures.
- rephrasing
when
misunderstood
- How is Pragmatics studied?
- Pragmatics can be studied
using various different
methods, somo of them are.
- Theoretical Pragmatics
- The pragmatic theories, based
on such hypothetical interaction,
were later applied to real data.
- Empirical
Pragmatics
- This is a relatively new
method of pragmatics and
involves studying actual
language in use. The
language data can be
collected in various ways
such as interview,
spontaneous speech and
experiments.
- Experimental
Pragmatics
- Experimental
evidence can be
used, together with
intuition and
recordings, to confirm
or disconfirm
hypotheses