- "In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning."
The study of how context affects the interpretation of language and communication, including issues of politeness, relevance, and implicature.
Speech Acts: The meaning behind verbal expressions and their implications in social contexts.
Deixis: Meaning derived from contextual factors such as spatial, temporal and social differences.
Presupposition: The implicit assumptions we make while communicating, and their effect on understanding.
Implicature: The inferred meaning from an utterance, in addition to its literal meaning.
Politeness: The cultural and social conventions that govern language when used in social contexts.
Coherence: How we create meaning by connecting words, sentences or smaller units to make a larger whole.
Contextualization: How meaning is derived or created in social and cultural contexts, actively influenced by the interlocutors or participants.
Reference: The association between words or other linguistic items and aspects of the real world, as they are seen or perceived by speakers.
Speech Acts and Conversational Structure: The way speakers use language to perform actions, including reporting, ordering, and questioning, among others.
The Relationship between Language and Context: Considering how language is influenced and affected by social and cultural contexts, and how those contexts in turn shape language use.
Speech Acts: It focuses on the study of how people use language to perform actions such as making a promise, asking a question, or giving orders.
Conversational Implicature: It is concerned with the implicit meanings that arise from the way language is used in everyday conversation.
Politeness Theory: It is a framework that explains how we use language to be polite or impolite in different social situations.
Relevance Theory: It is a model that explains how we use language to communicate the most relevant information in a given context.
Gaze and Gestures: It examines how nonverbal cues such as eye contact and gestures contribute to the meaning of language.
Discourse Analysis: It is a methodology that investigates how language is used in longer stretches of text, such as conversations or speeches.
Pragmatic Competence: It involves the ability to use language effectively in different social contexts, taking into account the social norms and cultural expectations.
- "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."
- "Pragmatics emerged as its own subfield in the 1950s after the pioneering work of J.L. Austin and Paul Grice."
- "Pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning."
- "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."
- "Linguists who specialize in pragmatics are called pragmaticians."
- "The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called pragmatic competence."
- "Pragmatics emerged as its own subfield in the 1950s after the pioneering work of J.L. Austin and Paul Grice."
- "The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions."
- "The field has been represented since 1986 by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)."
- "The field of study evaluates [...] as well as the relationship between the interpreter and the interpreted."
- "Pragmatics encompasses phenomena including implicature, speech acts, relevance and conversation, as well as nonverbal communication."
- "Syntax examines sentence structures, principles, and relationships."