The domain of Pragmatics

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

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

Are not directly addressed to the other

Example

It´s too cold in here”

Statements are directly addressed the other

Expressing your needs

Directly asked

Example

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

Mitigating divices

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

It`s center to work of researchers in conversation

Types

The can be made on the basic structure

Structural form

Subtopic

• Declarative
• Interrogative
• Imperative

Example

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

A complete speech act made in a typical utterance

Consists

In the delivery of the propositional l content of the utterance

Example

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

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

Example

I warn you that

Performance of an utterance and hence of speech acts

Producing

A meaningful linguistic expression “senses”

Example

I`ve just made some coffee