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Pragmatics
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References: Yule, G. (2006). Pragmatics. In The study of language (3rd ed.). Cambridge [England: Cambridge University Press.
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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.
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