Linguistic Pragmatics Discipline

A Linguistic Pragmatics Discipline is a linguistics discipline that focuses on what natural language utterances do.

• Context:
  • It can analyze Linguistic Pragmatic Analysis.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Linguistic Semantics.
• See: Pragmatics Analysis Task, Pragmatics Theory, Ambiguity, Linguistics, Semiotics, Speech Act, Implicature, Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pragmatics Retrieved:2024-1-24.
  • In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship between the interpreter and the interpreted. Linguists who specialize in pragmatics are called pragmaticians. The field has been represented since 1986 by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). Pragmatics encompasses phenomena including implicature, speech acts, relevance and conversation, as well as nonverbal communication. Theories of pragmatics go hand-in-hand with theories of semantics, which studies aspects of meaning, and syntax which examines sentence structures, principles, and relationships. The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called pragmatic competence. In 1938, Charles Morris first distinguished pragmatics as an independent subfield within semiotics, alongside syntax and semantics. Pragmatics emerged as its own subfield in the 1950s after the pioneering work of J.L. Austin and Paul Grice.

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pragmatics Retrieved:2015-4-16.
  • Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk in interaction and other approaches to language behavior in philosophy, sociology, linguistics and anthropology. Unlike semantics, which examines meaning that is conventional or "coded" in a given language, pragmatics studies how the transmission of meaning depends not only on structural and linguistic knowledge (e.g., grammar, lexicon, etc.) of the speaker and listener, but also on the context of the utterance, any pre-existing knowledge about those involved, the inferred intent of the speaker, and other factors. In this respect, pragmatics explains how language users are able to overcome apparent ambiguity, since meaning relies on the manner, place, time etc. of an utterance. The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called pragmatic competence.

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