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    Pragmatics is the study of contextual meaning in communication and language use. It examines how people understand each other linguistically beyond the literal meaning of words through inferences, context, and unstated assumptions. Pragmatics considers speaker meaning, context, inferences, and the relationship between linguistic forms and their users. It studies phenomena such as conversational implicature, speech acts, deixis, and how people manage reference in discourse.

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    PRAGMATICS – George Yule

    Pragmatics, in linguistics and philosophy, the study of the use of natural language in communication; more
    generally, the study of the relations between languages and their users.

    pragmatics is
    “The study of contextual meaning communicated by a speaker or writer, and interpreted by a listener or
    reader.” (G.Yule)
    • “The study of the relation of signs to their interpreters.” (Charles Morris)
    • “The study of the relations between linguistic forms and its users (…). Only pragmatics allows humans
    into the analysis: their assumptions, purposes, goals, and actions they perform while speaking.”
    (G.Yule)

    PRAGMATICS IS…
    1- THE STUDY OF SPEAKER MEANING WHAT PEOPLE MEAN by their utterances rather than what
    the words or phrases might mean by themselves.
    - The study of contextual meaning • Importance of the CONTEXT: the circumstances and the audience or
    public.
    - The study of how more gets communicated than said.
    - The INFERENCES made by listeners or readers in order to arrive at an interpretation of the intended
    meaning. • A great deal of what is UNSAID is recognized as part of what is communicated.
    • The study of “invisible meaning”
    - The study of the expression of relative distance: The CLOSENESS or DISTANCE of the listener or
    reader determines how much needs to be said. For example: A: there is a store over there (Let‘s go
    inside) B: no (I don‘t want to go inside) A: why not? (why do you not want to go inside?) B: I‘m tired.
    (I don‘t want to because I‘m tired.)

    IN OTHER WORDS… PRAGMATICS studies HOW PEOPLE MAKE SENSE OF EACH


    OTHER LINGUISTICALLY. For example: A: So_ did you? B: Hey_ who wouldn’t? Two friends in
    a conversation may imply some things and infer some others without providing any clear linguistic
    evidence. So, pragmatics requires us to make sense of what people have in mind.
    What is inference in pragmatics?
    When the message of a speaker goes beyond the literal or logical meaning of the sentences used, a pragmatic
    inference is required to understand the complete meaning of an utterance. Here we study one example
    of pragmatic inference, called conversational implicature.
    ▪ Speech acts. ...
    ▪ Conversational implicature. ...
    ▪ Rhetorical Structure. ...
    ▪ Managing the flow of reference in discourse.

    What is difference between pragmatics and semantics?


    According to one way of understanding the distinction, semantics is the study of how sentences of a
    language - or some suitable level of representation, such as logical forms - compositionally determine truth
    conditions, while pragmatics is the study of inferences that hearers draw on the basis of interpreting truth.
    pragmatics is the study of deixis
    Deixis are words in our language that cant be interpreted at all if we don’t know the context, especially the
    physical context of the speaker. Example: You’ll have to bring it back tomorrow because she isn’t here today.
    Deixis We can only understand deictic expressions, or indexicals, in terms of the speaker’s intended meaning.
    Deixis means ‘pointing’ via language.
    Three kinds of deixis: • Person deixis: to point to things and people… such as: it, this… • Spatial deixis: to
    point to a location… such as: here, there • Temporal deixis: to point to a time… such as: now, then
    Deixis We also make a distinction between what is “close” to the speaker and what is “distant” depending on
    the speaker’s deictic center or location. • Proximal: ‘near the speaker’… such as: … • Distal: ‘away from the
    speaker’…

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