Pragmatics Flashcards
What is Pragmatics?
Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning
What is Pragmatics in length?
Pragmatics is concerned with the study of meaning as commun- icated by a speaker (or writer) and interpreted by a listener (or reader). It has, consequently, more to do with the analysis of what people mean by their utterances than what the words or phrases in those utterances might mean by themselves
PGMATiCS is
Pragmatics is the study of contextual meaning
Pragmatics is the study of the expression of relative distance.
You can’t speak to your teacher like you speak to your friend
You can’t speak to old man like you speak to young man
Pragmatics is the study of contextual meaning
Pragmatics is the study of contextual meaning
the investigation of invisible meaning
Pragmatics
Deixis
It means ‘pointing’ via language. Any linguistic form used to accomplish this ‘pointing’ is called a deictic expression
adjacency pair
A sequence of two utterances by different speakers in conversation. The second is a response to the first, e.g. ques- tion-answer. [77]
anaphor
The word, typically a pronoun, used to maintain refer- ence to someone or something already mentioned, e.g. ‘An old man was limping towards us. He slowly came into view.’ [23]
antecedent
antecedent : The initial expression used to identify someone or something for which an anaphor is used later, e.g. ‘AM old man was limping towards us. He slowly came into view.’ [23]
attributable silence
attributable silence: The absence of talk when a speaker is given the right to speak in conversation. [73]
attributive use
attributive use : Using an expression to identify someone or some- thing without being committed to the existence of an actual per- son or thing, e.g. ‘the first person to walk on Mars’. [18]
backchannels/backchannel signals
A signal to shows ….. (To be countinued)
