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In linguistics, pragmatics is concerned with bridging the explanatory gap between sentence meaning and speaker’s meaning. The study of how context influences the interpretation is then crucial. "Context" here must be interpreted as situation as it may include any imaginable extra-linguistic factor, including discourse, social, environmental, and psychological factors.
Methodology and presuppositions
Pragmatics is interested predominantly in utterances, made up of sentences, and usually in the context of conversations.
A distinction is made in pragmatics between sentence meaning and speaker meaning. Sentence meaning is the literal meaning of the sentence, while the speaker meaning is the concept that the speaker is trying to convey.
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playing with some semantics and pragmatics. of search. i more addicted to queries than Googlers. i need intervention.
houenrong (Hou Enrong) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:21:51 -0000
playing with some semantics and pragmatics. of search. i more addicted to queries than Googlers. i need intervention.
@csetyono Sure, a good knowledge of conversational analysis, semantics and pragmatics helps a lot when dealing with small scripts (140 etc)
AstonLin (Aston Lin) Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:08:02 -0000
@csetyono Sure, a good knowledge of conversational analysis, semantics and pragmatics helps a lot when dealing with small scripts (140 etc)
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Default Semantics, Pragmatics, and Intentions - Article by K.M. Jaszczolt discussing the distinction between semantics and pragmatics.
On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Information Packaging - Article by Herman Hendriks.
Review of `The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface' - By Francisco Yus of Turner's book. Appeared on the LINGUIST list.
The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction - Article by Kent Bach.
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