Differences between semantics and pragmatics

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Mind Map on Differences between semantics and pragmatics, created by Jair Liévano N on 28/04/2015.
Jair Liévano N
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Differences between semantics and pragmatics
  1. Semantics
    1. Semantics is a sub discipline of linguistics which focuses on the study of meaning.
      1. It is about studying language in isolation and not language in use.
        1. Looks at meaning in isolation.
          1. It is not so much a practical topic but one that requires thinking rather than doing and does not really require any experiments
            1. Areas of semantic
              1. Symbol and referent, conception of meaning, dennotation, connotation, implication, epistemology.
        2. Pragmatics
          1. Pragmatics studies how people comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in a concrete speech situation which is usually a conversation
            1. Pragmatics studies how people comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in a concrete speech situation which is usually a conversation.
              1. Areas of pragmatic
                1. Felicity conditions, conversational implicature, politeness, phatic tokens, deixis.
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