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Pragmatics and Text Analysis
Chapter 6
concerned with the how meaning is communicated by the speaker (writer) and interpreted by the listener (reader) in a certain context.
Introduction
Pragmatics also differs from syntax in that pragmatics is concerned with the meaning of sentence and depends on the context, syntax concerned with structure of the sentence
For example, the four words in the following dialogue are all syntactically incomplete, but pragmatically they are all "appropriate" in the particular context.
Introduction
Semantics: the study of meaning that can be determined from a sentence, phrase or word.
Pragmatics: the study of meaning, as it depends on context (speaker, situation)
pragmatics is needed if we want a fuller, deeper, and generally more reasonable account of human language behavior.
Differences
Pragmatics is also concerned with language used in particular contexts. It is the linguistic analysis of naturally occurring connected spoken or written texts.
In other words, it is the study of linguistic units larger than sentences or clauses.
Differences
Physical context: where the conversation is taking place, what objects are present, what actions are occurring
Linguistic context: what has been said already in the sentence.
For example, if I begin a discussion by referring to Al Majmaa and in the next sentence refer to “it" as being our university, the linguistic context lets me know that “it" is Al Majmaa
Contexts
Social context: the social relationship among speakers and listeners.
Contexts
Two people come into a library and they are talking loud
Someone said: “Excuse me, could you please speak up a bit more? I missed what you said.”
What do we know pragmatically about his words?
Example
Physical context: the conversation occurs in a library
linguistic: tone of voice social context: asking someone to be quiet in
a place where people are supposed to be quiet
Example