Pragmatics
- Created by: georgiasadler
- Created on: 03-04-14 19:52
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- PRAGMATICS
- Understanding things in context
- Study of linguistic deeds
- Study of language in action
- How people get their meaning across within different social contexts
- Meanings may very depending on context
- Calving something would be different at Halloween than any other time
- Where and why is it happening?
- Setting
- Where and when?
- Purpose
- Why?
- Audience
- Who is speaking?
- Who is listening?
- What is the relationship between them?
- Topic
- What is being discussed?
- Semantics
- Connotations
- Apply to context
- Paralinguistic features
- Facial expressions, body language
- How they influence meaning
- Prosodic features
- Tone of voice, pitch etc.
- How they affect meaning
- Politeness strategies
- Formal or informal address?
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