- "In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning."
The study of how context and social factors influence language use and interpretation.
Communicative Competence: The ability to use language effectively in social situations.
Speech Acts: The study of how people use language to make requests, give orders, make promises, and perform other functions.
Politeness: The way people use language in order to show politeness or deference to others.
Implicature: The study of how meaning can be conveyed indirectly, through context and implication.
Presupposition: The study of the assumptions that people make when they use language.
Discourse Analysis: The study of how language is used in larger communicative contexts, such as conversations, speeches, or written texts.
Pragmatic Markers: Words or phrases that have a pragmatic function in conversation, such as "um," "ah," "like," and "ya know.".
Grice's Maxims: The four principles of effective communication, as outlined by philosopher H.P. Grice.
Speech Perception: How people perceive and interpret speech sounds in context.
Neurolinguistics: The study of the neurological basis of language, including the role of pragmatics in language processing.
Conversation Analysis: The study of how interactions are structured in conversation.
Speech Production: The process by which speakers create language and convey meaning.
Language Development: How children acquire and develop pragmatics skills.
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: How pragmatics varies across cultures.
Language Disorders: How pragmatics is affected in individuals with language disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Aphasia, etc.
Conversational implicature: It is an indirect meaning that is derived from the speaker’s statements within a specific context.
Maxims: Maxims are guidelines or principles of communication that people follow while speaking, such as the maxim of relevance, quality, and quantity.
Speech acts: Speech acts refer to the use of language to perform an action such as promising, commanding, questioning, or apologizing.
Politeness: Politeness involves language usage that is respectful, deferential, and maintains social harmony and is determined by the speaker's culture and social background.
Presupposition: Presupposition refers to an assumption or belief that is made regarding the listener’s knowledge or experience.
Discourse analysis: Discourse analysis is the study of how language is used in context and the implications or impact that language usage has on power, identity, and social norms.
Deixis: Deixis involves the use of demonstrative pronouns (‘this’ and ‘that’) to point to a specific object or event, typically based on contextual cues.
Figurative language: Figurative language is the use of language that is not literal, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, whose meaning is obtained through contextual analysis, knowledge of concepts and cultural metaphors.
Irony: Irony is the use of words or language to convey a meaning that is opposite or different from the literal meaning expressed.
- "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."