Pragmatics Flashcards
To know basic contents of unit 8
What is pragmatics?
It is the study of how context affects meaning
What is lexical semantics?
The literal meanings of words
Which is other way to understand pragmatics?
The study of extra-truth-conditional meaning.
What is the meaning of a Deictic word
A word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs
Which are the types of deictic words
Person deixis, Place deixis and time deixis
Person deixis is based on?
Person reference. Here we have the personal pronouns
Place deixis is based on?
place reference e.g. here, there, over there
Time deixis is based on?
Time reference e.g. now, then, soon, tomorrow
What can we also add to this deictic words?
We can add adverbs, prepositions and demonstratives
Do diectic words have restrictions?
Yes, they need to have a person, a place or a time as a reference, except for the pronoun I, which is the speaker
What is reference resolution?
It is the process in which we look to the context in which the pronoun is spoken to identify the referent
What is the linguistic context?
It is what has been said already in the utterance. Sue is great. She is kind. (it lets me know who ‘she’ is)
What is the situational context?
Anything non-linguistic. Gestures, body language.
What does implicature refers to?
Understand or suggest indirectly through what we say, rather than stating it explicitly what we think about something.
Maxims of Conversation or Cooperative principles
Maxim of Quality: Truth, Maxim of Quantity: Information,Maxim of Relation: Relevance,Maxim of Manner: Clarity
