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arabera johan francisco ramirez 11 years ago

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The domain of Pragmatics

Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that examines how context contributes to meaning in human communication. It focuses on the interaction between speakers and listeners, and how utterances are understood in specific situations.

The domain of Pragmatics

The domain of Pragmatics

Locutionary acts

Performance of an utterance and hence of speech acts
Producing

A meaningful linguistic expression “senses”

I`ve just made some coffee

Prelocutionary acts

A speech act that produce and effect
Speaker

Intended or not achieve in an addressee by an utterances

Utterances

Depending on the circumstances you will assumption that hearer will recognize the effect intended for

I warn you that

Illocutionary acts

A complete speech act made in a typical utterance
Consists

In the delivery of the propositional l content of the utterance

• I`ll see you later • I promise you that

Speech act

It`s center to work of researchers in conversation
Types

The can be made on the basic structure

Structural form

Subtopic

• Declarative • Interrogative • Imperative

• You wear a seat bell “declarative” • Do you wear a seat bell “interrogative?” • Wear a seat bell “imperative”

Pragmatics

Linguistic communication
Communication succeeds

The speaker has an activity, which he intends to convey to the hearer in using language

Conversation

Studies the organization of conversations and suggests

Elements

• Opening, closing, responses, explanations, classifications

Purpose

They communicate a proposal to engage in conversation

Say something

Approach on what a speaker has said and besides ask the question
Determine

• The sense of the uttered • He identity of objects in the real world reference to by the speaker

Example

Smoking children

The statements

Statements are directly addressed the other

Expressing your needs

Mitigating divices

Directly asked

• would you please Close the window? • Would you plese Lend me a pen?

Are not directly addressed to the other

Example

It´s too cold in here”

The esences of language

Is human activity
Part of one individual to make himself understood by another

Focuses

On speaker-meaning and hearer-effects

Examples

How are you? Counts as greetings, not a farewell