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Niu, Min, and Thawascha Dechsubha. "The semiotic dimension of contemporary pragmatics." Technium Social Sciences Journal 27 (January 8, 2022): 802–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v27i1.5651.
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Contemporary Pragmatics has the semiotic features from the respects of disciplinary naming, the means of development, and theoretical source to research object and method. It is not only an independent linguistics and language science, but also an interdisciplinary field and paradigm. This paper is to explore the semiotic features and dimensions of Pragmatics for tracing back the origin and the theoretical resources from semiotic perspective, and to define its research scope and clarify the connotation of its conception. As Semiotics has a triad dimension of semiosis, one of which is the “pragmatic dimension”. Therefore, contemporary pragmatics includes at least three semiotic dimensions: scientific semiotics, linguistic semiotics and social semiotics. The semiotic analysis of Pragmatics could be conducive to clarify and fix the semiotic and philosophical origin, definition, disciplinary connotation and meaning of Pragmatics, which is also theoretically helpful for clarifying the concepts for the study of philosophical pragmatism, pragmaticism, semiotics, semantics and syntax.
Key Words: Semiotic, Pragmatics, Pragmaticism
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Kadek Heni Oktarina Wisudayanti and Putu Desi Anggerina Hikmaharyanti. "THE CAPACITY OF PRAGMATICS IN ESL TEACHING OF ENGLISH STUDENTS IN BULELENG REGENCY." SPHOTA: Jurnal Linguistik dan Sastra 13, no. 1 (March 30, 2021): 12–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.36733/sphota.v13i1.1522.
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This study is focused on the capacities of pragmatics in ESL teaching and limited to three essential discussions; first, the investigation of teaching pragmatics relevancy stated on pragmatics elements, second, the presentation of the effective ways in teaching pragmatics by applying SURE steps (Brock and Nagaska, 2005), and the elaboration of pragmatics effects towards ESL learners. It is necessary to conduct a research of pragmatics capacities in ESL teaching. Due to the problems discussed, the theories suggested in this research include pragmatics definition, pragmatic competence, pragmatic elements and SURE method. Then, the method applied in this research is descriptive qualitative in nature and the data are from the 3rd semester of STKIP Agama Hindu Singaraja students. The data analysis is performed to investigate the relevancy of pragmatics in ESL teaching, the pragmatics teaching methods, and the effect of pragmatics towards ESL learners. This study finds pragmatics is a relevant point to be taught in the language classroom due to language is an arbitrary. Through SURE methods, students are expected to comprehend the language used in contexts. Pragmatics affects the ESL learners to be sensitive about the surroundings, other cultural interactions, also how they must behave towards circumstances as ESL learners.
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Penelitian ini difokuskan pada kapasitas pragmatik dalam pengajaran ESL dan dibatasi pada tiga diskusi esensial; pertama, investigasi relevansi pengajaran pragmatik yang tertuang pada unsur-unsur pragmatik, kedua, penyajian cara efektif dalam pembelajaran pragmatik dengan menerapkan metode SURE (Brock dan Nagaska, 2005), dan penjabaran efek pragmatik terhadap peserta didik ESL. Untuk itu perlu dilakukan penelitian tentang kapasitas pragmatik dalam pengajaran ESL. Berdasarkan permasalahan yang dibahas, maka teori yang disarankan dalam penelitian ini meliputi pengertian pragmatik, kompetensi pragmatis, unsur pragmatis dan metode SURE. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan data dari mahasiswa-mahasiswa STKIP Agama Hindu Singaraja semester 3. Analisis data dilakukan untuk mengetahui relevansi pragmatik dalam pembelajaran ESL, metode pembelajaran pragmatik, dan pengaruh pragmatik terhadap peserta didik ESL. Studi ini menemukan bahwa pragmatik adalah poin yang relevan untuk diajarkan di kelas bahasa karena bahasa bersifat sewenang-wenang. Melalui metode SURE, mahasiswa diharapkan memahami bahasa yang digunakan dalam konteks. Pragmatik mempengaruhi mahasiswa ESL untuk peka terhadap lingkungan sekitar, interaksi budaya lainnya, juga bagaimana mereka harus berperilaku terhadap keadaan sebagai peserta didik ESL.
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Wodak, Ruth. "Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis." Pragmatics and Cognition 15, no. 1 (May 11, 2007): 203–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.15.1.13wod.
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This paper discusses important and fruitful links between (Critical) Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics. In a detailed analysis of three utterances of an election speech by the Austrian rightwing politician Jörg Haider, it is illustrated in which ways a discourse-analytical and pragmatic approach grasps the intricacy of anti-Semitic meanings, directed towards the President of the Viennese Jewish Community. The necessity of in-depth context-analysis in multiple layers (from the socio-political context up to the co-text of each utterance) moreover emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary approaches when investigating such complex issues as racism and anti-Semitism as produced and reproduced in discourse. More specifically, the relevance of pragmatic devices such as insinuations, presuppositions and implicatures, is discussed when analyzing instances of ‘coded language’, i.e., utterances with indirect and latent racist and anti-Semitic meanings as common in official discourses in Western Europe.
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Al-Juaifari, Hanaa Idan Mahdi. "Analysis and Conclusion of Pragmatics in Syntactic Structures." International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education 14, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 1288–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.9756/int-jecse/v14i1.221147.
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The emergence of the concept of modern pragmatics is what prompted linguists to pay attention to the issue of reception. For a period of time, linguistics has been divided into two main traditional divisions, syntax, which studies the relationship between linguistic signs, and semantics, which examines the relationships of linguistic signs with the meanings they signify. These two branches aspired to describe the works of human language. Then, philosophers of language added a third section and called it pragmatics, which is concerned with the relations of the linguistic sign. The present study aims to reveal and highlight the pragmatic dimensions in the ancient linguistic lesson in some grammatical structures, including addressing, contracting, and temptation and warning. The researcher selected samples and applied pragmatic dimensions on them to clarify their forms.
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Abdulrdha, Ola Ahmed, and Esam Ahmed Nasser. "The pragmatic aspects and their relationship with the theatrical discourse." Al-Adab Journal 2, no. 142 (September 15, 2022): 73–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v2i142.3803.
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One of the most important contemporary approaches that has a clear impact on the analysis of artistic works is the pragmatic approach, which is a linguistic approach that studies the relationship between linguistic activity and its users, the forms and methods of using linguistic signs and the different contexts in which the speech is made, since language is one of the most powerful tools that the sender uses to communicate his intentions to the recipient and influence him according to these purposes and to look for the factors that make the speech a clear and successful communicative message. Pragmatics has been applied in the Koran, the short story, the novel, poetry and the theater, and in our opinion, there is no text that embodies pragmatics more than the theatrical text, due to the predominance of its dialogical nature, because the function language is the function of communication.
In this research we ask ourselves a series of questions, which are the following:
- What is pragmatics?
- What is the nature of the relationship between the theatrical text and pragmatics?
Are the works subject to deliberative analysis?
- How is the play analyzed according to the pragmatic approach?
Is it possible to talk about pragmatics in theatrical discourse? Or, can pragmatics be used as a means in the study of theatrical discourse?
Pragmatics has opened new horizons for the researcher to allow him to investigate, analyze, and accurately understand language and discourse, and therefore the choice of this research, marked with: "The pragmatic aspects and their relation to theatrical discourse", for reasons that include: pragmatics is an important science, and the interest in the theatrical pragmatic dimension is modern, which aroused the desire to know it more in the field of theatrical analysis.
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Luzón Marco, María José. "Corpus analysis and pragmatics." ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 123-124 (January 1, 1999): 37–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/itl.123-124.02luz.
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Abstract Fail to belongs to a type of verbal structures which are in a syntactic construction with other verbs (e.g. fail to win) and which have meanings related to aspect or modality. In this paper we used the COBUILD corpus to analyse the discursive function of fail to and the meaning it adds to the verbal group where it occurs. The paper shows that with regard to function fail to is more similar to auxiliaries than to lexical verbs. Fail to is used in positive clauses to deny an expectation, which explains its association with non-durative aspect and with the modality meanings "non-achievement" and "unfulfilled obligation", and in rhetorical questions and negative clauses it is used to express the speaker's strong commitment to the certainty of a proposition.
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SCHEGLOFF, EMANUEL A. "Discourse, Pragmatics, Conversation, Analysis." Discourse Studies 1, no. 4 (November 1999): 405–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445699001004002.
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Lara, Glaucia Muniz Proença. "Pragmatics and discourse analysis." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 26, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 93–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.26.1.05lar.
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In this article, which is part of a larger postdoctoral research, we examine, in the light of the dialogue between Pragmatics and French Discourse Analysis, the notion of aphorization, as proposed by Dominique Maingueneau (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012). We have tried to observe its use in Brazilian and French magazines, as a resource to manipulate the readers, especially through the changes that this kind of utterance undergoes in the process of highlighting.
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Barón, Júlia, M. Luz Celaya, and Mayya Levkina. "Learning pragmatics through tasks." Applied Pragmatics 2, no. 1 (March 10, 2020): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ap.18010.bar.
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Abstract This study aims at examining the benefits of teaching L2 pragmatics with the use of tasks. The participants were 50 Catalan/Spanish bilingual students (aged 12–14) from three intact classes who were learners of English as a Foreign Language and with an upper-intermediate level of proficiency. The three groups followed different approaches to teaching pragmatics: G1 was instructed in pragmatics following a task-supported approach; G2 was also instructed in pragmatics but no tasks were used; and G3 was a control group with no instruction on pragmatics and no use of tasks, either. To assess pragmatic learning, role-plays were used both before and after the pedagogical intervention. The pragmatic analysis focused on the speech acts of giving opinion, agreeing/disagreeing, interrupting, and acknowledging the interlocutor. Results showed that the two instructed groups, regardless of the type, were more pragmatically competent in the posttest in one of the pragmatic moves (i.e., interrupting). Additionally, G1 presented statistically significant differences in the posttest when acknowledging the interlocutor. Regarding the control group, no differences were found in any of the moves. These findings suggest that instruction in general, and task-supported instruction in particular, has a positive impact on the development of interlanguage pragmatics in a classroom context.
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Mahmud, Avesta Kamal. "Pragmatics Impairment and complexity of Linguistic Domain: Psycho-linguistic Analysis for pragmatic Disorders." Journal of University of Human Development 3, no. 3 (August 31, 2017): 424. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/juhd.v3n3y2017.pp424-452.
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This research under name of (Pragmatics Impairment and complexity of Linguistic Domain: Psycho-linguistic Analysis for pragmatic Disorders) In one hand Pragmatics is the ability to appropriately interact with another by Using language in the social situation and Connecting with others, on the other hand pragmatics disorders are Inability to take turns during conversation, Inability to engage in the give and take of a conversation. this research analysis the main ideas about this type of disorders therefore it discusses the main causes that affect language comprehension and fluency, for this matter we used clinical linguistics, neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics to show how people who had this disorders struggling and how we can treat them especially how Kurdish language speakers will be affect in this level of language.
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Erkinovna, Abdullaeva Nargiza. "A corpus-based empirical analysis of pragmatics of English proverbs with graduonymy." International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences 6, no. 2 (November 4, 2022): 73–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/ijss.v6i2.8221.
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Nowadays, pragmatic features of proverbs are of great interest to linguists as proverbs are often used in conversations to polish speech stylistically, semantically and, at the same time, pragmatically. Paradigms such as synonymy, antonymy and polysemy were investigated as lexical-semantic relations in proverbial content in recent works. This research is devoted to analysing another lexical-semantic relation in proverbial content: graduonymic relations and their types, which are frequently seen in proverbial content, and their role in the pragmatic peculiarities of proverbs in particular contexts. The empiric corpus-based analysis of proverbs containing graduonyms in the chosen text fragments that were created by native speakers of the English language served to disclose the pragmatics of proverbs such as graduonyms function as various types of deixis, emphasise the speech act steps of the proverb and increase the pragmatic potential of the proverb. The results of the paper are discussed in the context of theoretical and pragmatic perspectives.
Keywords: Deixis, graduonymy, pragmatics, proverb, speech act;
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Sinha, Kanhaiya Kumar. "The Role of Pragmatics in Literary Analysis: Approaching Literary Meaning from a Linguistic Perspective." International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies 2, no. 2 (March 28, 2021): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.47631/ijecls.v2i2.211.
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The present paper aims to produce a detailed account of the term ‘pragmatics’ and explore, by presenting and reviewing different models, its role in literature as it appears to be evident in different linguistic approaches to the study and analysis of literary genres. It is a fact that various pragmatic approaches such as speech act theory, conversational implicature, politeness theory, and relevance theory are developed mainly in relation to spoken interaction, yet, as some studies suggest, they offer invaluable insights to the study of literary texts. Consequently, the paper also strives to shed some light on the relationship these two terms – literature and pragmatics – enjoy so that their commonalities can be unmasked. It also tries to explore how pragmatics may help find out the ‘context’ and ‘meaning’ of literary discourse.
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Taavitsainen, Irma, and Andreas H. Jucker. "Twenty years of historical pragmatics." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16, no. 1 (April 3, 2015): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.16.1.01taa.
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This paper provides an outline of the changes in linguistics that gave rise to historical pragmatics in the 1990s and that have shaped its development over the twenty years of its existence. These changes have affected virtually all aspects of linguistic analyses: the nature of the data, the research questions, the methods and tools that are being used for the analysis, as well as the nature of the generalizations and findings that result from these investigations. We deal with the changes in terms of shifts in thought styles and discuss seven different turns: the pragmatic turn, the socio-cultural turn, the dispersive turn, the empirical turn, the digital turn, the discursive turn and the diachronic turn. We also deal with some long-standing, recent or emerging interfaces where historical pragmatics interacts with other disciplines and we discuss some future challenges, such as the multimodality and fluidity of communication and the problem of combining big data with pragmatic micro analyses.
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Kolaiti, Patricia, and Deirdre Wilson. "Corpus Analysis and Lexical Pragmatics: An Overview." International Review of Pragmatics 6, no. 2 (2014): 211–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-00602002.
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Lexical pragmatics studies the processes by which lexically encoded meanings are modified in use; well-studied examples include lexical narrowing, approximation and metaphorical extension. Relevance theorists have been trying to develop a unitary account on which narrowing, approximation and metaphorical extension are all explained in the same way. While there have been several corpus-based studies of metaphor and a few of hyperbole or approximation, there has been no attempt so far to test the unitary account using corpus data. This paper reports the results of a corpus-based investigation of lexical-pragmatic processes, and discusses the theoretical issues and challenges it raises.
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Fathurrosyid, Fathurrosyid. "MEMAHAMI BAHASA ALQURAN BERBASIS GRAMATIKAL (Kajian tehadap Kontribusi Pragmatik dalam Kajian Tafsir)." JURNAL At-Tibyan: Jurnal Ilmu Alquran dan Tafsir 3, no. 1 (August 13, 2018): 114. http://dx.doi.org/10.32505/tibyan.v3i1.487.
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Interacting with the verses of the Qur'an by conducting analytical activities that stop at the linguistic context and its grammatical structure will not be sufficient to pursue the ultimate truth (maqasid asasiyah). Under such conditions, a secondary device is required to open layers of messages that are settled in text that can not be comprehensively understood from the grammatical perspectives of the text. The device in the study of linguistics is called pragmatic. Pragmatic presence in linguistic studies is context-dependent. The context intended in this pragmatic is not only the personalized context of the -particular (asbab al-nuzul khassah), but also the universal self-impersonal context (asbab al-nuzul 'ammah).Based on the above phenomenon, this research is about to reveal three important issues; First, what is the theory of pragmatics and pragmatics of the Qur'an ?.Secondly, how is the basic assumption of the Qur'anic pragmatics and the steps? Third, what are the contributions of pragmatic theory in the study of Qur'anic commentary ?. The goal, in addition to knowing the intent of pragmatic theory and pragmatics of the Qur'an, is also to unravel the basic assumptions of the Qur'anic pragmatics and what are their contributions in the study of tafsir.This research is library research. The primary data source is the Qur'an about the story of Maryam, while the secondary data is in the form of books of tafsir or books relevant to the theme of the story and pragmatic theory. The procedure is linguistic analysis using critical discourse analysis to reveal the ideology tucked behind the language and phenomenological analysis of the discourses that are told to dismantle the contribution of pragmatic theory in the study of the Qur'anic commentary.This study yields the following conclusions: First, the pragmatics of the Qur'an is a discipline that examines the Qur'ân from the standpoint of the relationship between the dyberic linguistic context; and triadic non-linguistic contexts. Secondly, the basic assumption of pragmatics of the Qur'an is because this scripture does not descend in empty space, but has a dialectical connection to Arab socio-cultural reality. In addition, the Qur'an is a holy book that uses the language media that is full of meaning and subjectivity of the mufassir. Thirdly, the contribution of prasetics in the study of Qur'anic interpretation shows that, (a) the presence of the theory of perlokusi as the instrument of determining the meaning of speakers whether in the form of declarative, imperative or other sentences. (b) implicatures as a deadlock solution of textual grammatical understanding and (c) the presence of pragmatics itself as a tool of understanding based on its context oriented to appropriateness in meaning and oriented appropriateness in form.
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Thi Bich Thuan, Le. "Character Analysis Through Politeness in A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 6, no. 4 (May 2, 2017): 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.4p.218.
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This paper analyses the grandmother, the main character, in A Good Man Is Hard to Find, one of Flannery O’Connor’s most famous short stories, in the light of pragmatic conversation, mainly including the theory of politeness. On the basis of the results, it has been concluded that the framework from pragmatics can provide effective tools for enhancing the understanding and interpretation of the character development in the study of literary works. This study is hopefully supposed to be beneficial for the specialists and analysts in the field of pragmatics and literature.
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Miššíková, Gabriela. "Analysing analytical minds. An interpersonal pragmatics approach to literary discourse." Ars Aeterna 14, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 52–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2022-0011.
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Abstract Taking an interpersonal pragmatics approach, this paper aims to view literary text as social discourse where conversational exchanges convey more than the content of talk. Applying the method of interpersonal pragmatic analysis, centred around the notions of implicatures and the concept of face in pragmatics, the social status of speakers is revealed via expressing their personal desires, preferences and professional ambitions. Combining the models of pragmatic stylistics analysis and the conception of interpersonal rhetoric (Leech, 1983) enables effective exploration of the interplay between characters, their efforts to comply with the cooperative and politeness principles, following particular communicative goals in conversations, making inferences and understanding implicatures. Focusing on the above-stated aims of research, the historical thriller The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld (2006) was chosen as the subject of analysis. In this novel, psychoanalysis and interpretation of a patient’s/victim’s responses, the unique application of professional expertise in psychoanalysis, palpable rivalry between scholars, as well as a desire for international recognition provide rich material for analysis. The presented research contributes new insights into the scholarly debate on interpersonal pragmatics, showing that approaching literary discourse analysis via a pragmatic stylistics approach is relevant and beneficial.
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Aijmer, Karin. "Contrastive Pragmatics and Corpora." Contrastive Pragmatics 1, no. 1 (February 28, 2020): 28–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26660393-12340004.
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Abstract Contrastive pragmatics is closely associated with the use of parallel and comparable corpora for studying the similarities and differences between languages. Parallel corpora have now been extended to more than two languages making them more relevant for typological research, and they can be used to investigate whether there are (discourse) universals across languages. Contrastive pragmatic studies also need to take into account aspects of the communication situation and the social and cultural context. As a result, many contrastive studies nowadays are doubly contrastive in that they compare pragmatic phenomena across both genres and languages. Scholars have also begun to combine contrastive analysis (translations) with the diachronic analysis of pragmatic phenomena in historical corpora, and pragmatic phenomena are studied contrastively with the focus being on sociolinguistic aspects. Illustrating these new uses is a case study which compares English absolutely with Swedish absolut.
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Claude, Calame. "Il soggetto che si dice nella poesia melica greca. Finzione enunciatva, immagini poetiche e pragmatica." PARADIGMI, no. 3 (November 2009): 85–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/para2009-003007.
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- Poetic images and Pragmatics Starting from Benveniste's analyses of historical enunciation, the nature of pronouns and the subjectivity of language, this essay focuses on that the kind of subjectivity implied in much Greek lyric poetry, especially in Pindar. By means of discursive tools, the narration builds an exclusively verbal image of the "I", which comes before any reference to elements external to the text. In this way, the "I" stands for an enunciative, pragmatic and polyphonic subject: it is, indeed, the actor (singer, tragic actor, choral group) of a ritualized situation. This performative identity is different from the author of the written text. In Greek poetry, the written text is above all a speech-act, mostly a song-act. This raises the problem of the difference - and of the relation - between the author's biographic subjectivity and the identity created by the linguistic devices in the text. Using different images: chariots, ceremonial processions, Calame's analysis focuses on the metaphorical identification between poetic song and journey.Key words: Enunciation, Image, Metaphor, Poetry, Pragmatics, Subjectivity.Parole chiave: Enunciazione, Immagine, Metafora, Poesia, Pragmatica, Soggettivitŕ. Vedere come.
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Huang, Yan. "Neo-Gricean Pragmatics and the Lexicon." International Review of Pragmatics 1, no. 1 (2009): 118–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187731009x455866.
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AbstractInterest in the pragmatics of the lexicon is probably as old as that in pragmatics itself, as can be seen in the early work by e.g.the 19 th century British philosophers John Stuart Mill and Augustus De Morgan, and the more recent, seminal work by Grice (1975, 1989) and McCawley (1978). However, a revival of this interest has occurred since the 1990s, and there has since been an acceleration in the development of a separate branch of lexical pragmatics. Currently, lexical pragmatics - the systematic study of aspects of meaning-related properties of lexical items that are dependent on or modifi ed in language in use, i.e.that part of lexical meaning which is parasitic on what is coded but is not part of what is coded (e.g.Huang 1998) – is a hot pursuit within at least three diff erent theoretical frameworks of pragmatics, namely, neo-Gricean pragmatic theory (e.g.Horn 1984, 1989, 2003, 2006a, b, 2007, Huang 1998, 2005, 2008, 2009, Levinson 2000), neo-Gricean oriented bidirectional optimality-theoretic (OT) pragmatics (e.g.Blutner 1998, 2004, forthcoming) and relevance theory (e.g.Carston 1997, Wilson 2003, Wilson and Carston 2007). e aim of this article is to present a neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis of four central topics in lexical pragmatics: lexical narrowing, lexical cloning, lexical blocking, and asymmetry in the lexicalization of certain logical operators.
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Waliyadin, Waliyadin, and Nurul Hayati Fauzi. "An analysis of apology in an Indonesian ELT textbook and the teacher's strategy to teach the apology." Erudita: Journal of English Language Teaching 1, no. 1 (November 29, 2021): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.28918/erudita.v1i1.4265.
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The apology is one of the speech acts that language functions cover. Considering that students must have pragmatic competence to use language appropriately in context, this research looked at apologies in an Indonesian senior high school ELT textbook, as well as the strategies used by teachers to teach apology. This study employed a qualitative approach which involves a textbook analysis and a semi-structured interview of the teacher’s teaching strategies to collect the data. The collected data then were classified, transferred into tables, and analyzed using Limberg (2015)’s principles of teaching pragmatics. The findings of this study show that the textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris Kelas XII covers some parts of Limberg’s principles of teaching pragmatics of apology. There is one principle that is not covered, namely, the principle of drawing a comparison. However, the findings of this study expose that the teacher’s teaching strategies cover all Limberg’s principles of teaching pragmatics of apology. Therefore, English teachers and institutions are expected to take into account the materials used to teach apology to students to raise students’ pragmatic competence.
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Sykes, Julie M., and Andrew D. Cohen. "Strategies and interlanguage pragmatics: Explicit and comprehensive." Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching 8, no. 2 (July 24, 2018): 381–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2018.8.2.9.
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Explicit instruction in strategies for interlanguage pragmatic learning is fundamental to the development of a comprehensive set of pragmatic abilities in the target language. In this article, we begin by providing an overview of previous work in the area of language learner strategies directed at the teaching and learning of pragmatics. We then offer an extension of Cohen’s (2005, 2014) framework of strategies for learning, using, and evaluating the use of interlanguage pragmatics in four domains: knowledge, analysis, subjectivity, and awareness (Sykes, Malone, Forrest, & Sadgic, forthcoming). Examples from current projects are provided to exemplify the critical importance of a strategies-based approach to the teaching and learning of interlanguage pragmatics. The article concludes with ideas for future research and implementation.
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KORKMAZ, Sedat, and Çiğdem KARATEPE. "Exploring the Pragmatic Awareness and Competence of EFL Instructors at Tertiary Level." Anadolu Journal Of Educational Sciences International 13, no. 1 (January 6, 2023): 34–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.18039/ajesi.1086084.
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The aim of this study is to investigate the perceptions of EFL instructors employed in the Schools of Foreign Languages of various universities in Turkey concerning their awareness of pragmatics and pragmatic competence. The sequential mixed method design was used in this descriptive study. The researchers administered a 12-item questionnaire with 61 participants to collect the quantitative data. In addition, to delve into the results obtained from the quantitative data, a two-session focus group interview was conducted with 10 participants to obtain the qualitative data. With regards to data analysis, the data obtained from the quantitative part of the questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistics. For the qualitative part of the research, inductive content analysis was applied to analyze the perceptions of EFL instructors to be able to ascertain their pragmatic awareness and competence. The results revealed that EFL instructors at the tertiary level had a moderate level of awareness of pragmatics and teaching pragmatics. Most university instructors underscored that they recognize the value of instructing students about pragmatics and cross-cultural issues. Accordingly, they attempt to adopt teaching strategies and practices that consider the needs of the linguistically and culturally diverse students. The outcomes of this study will be of use to foreign language instructors, curriculum designers and policymakers to act and recognize the importance of teaching of pragmatics in foreign language education.
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Shi, Xuqing. "Analysis and Translation Strategies of Public Signs from the Perspective of Pragmatics." Learning & Education 9, no. 2 (November 10, 2020): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.18282/l-e.v9i2.1390.
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With the improvement of China’s internationalization level, public signs in Chinese and English can be used universally. But in such cross-cultural communication, cultural differences in different countries inevitably lead to misunderstanding and even cultural conflict. Pragmatic failure is a common problem in cross cultural communication of public signs, because different languages carry different pragmatic rules and pragmatic constraints. This paper, under the framework of pragmatics, uses pragmatic failure theory to analyze pragmatic failure in the translation of public signs and put forward corresponding translation strategies in order to promote the harmony of the expression of mother tongue and target language in intercultural communication, to avoid communication conflicts and to improve the comfort of the language environment of public signs.
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Ilmi, Nur. "Analisis Pragmatik Imperatif Dalam Novel Pulang Karya Tere Liye." JIKAP PGSD: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Kependidikan 5, no. 1 (January 15, 2021): 154. http://dx.doi.org/10.26858/jkp.v5i1.18335.
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The study was descriptive qualitative research. A novel of Pulang was a data source of the research; utterance which contained the forms of imperative pragmatics and the meaning of imperative pragmatics was the data. Data were collected by employing documentation, reading, and not-taking technique. Data analysis techniques were conducted through several steps, namely data reduction, data presentation, conclusion, and verification of the results of the study. The results of the study reveal that the forms of imperative pragmatics discovered in a novel of Pulang by Tere Liye were three forms, namely the form of imperative pragmatics of statement, question, and hope. The meaning of imperative pragmatics were thirteen meanings, namely imperative pragmatics of command, asking, request, insistence, persuasion, appeal, granting, solicitation, asking permission, permit, invite, hope, suggestion. Based on the findings of utterance in the forms of imperative pragmatics and the meaning of imperative pragmatic, the researcher discovered messages delivered by the writer both in the social message and religious message. One of the social messages discovered by the researcher was an attitude of respecting each other revealed through utterances with the meaning of imperative pragmatics of asking permission.
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K.Sindhu, K. Sindhu, and G. Karthika G. Karthika. "Pragmatics as an Independent Level of Language Analysis in Linguistics." Indian Journal of Applied Research 3, no. 5 (October 1, 2011): 371–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/2249555x/may2013/111.
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Al- Jumaily, Assist Prof Dr Adnan Jassim Mohammed. "Prophet Essa . related quranic speech :Rhetorical approach in the light of pragmatic theory." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 218, no. 1 (November 9, 2018): 43–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v218i1.535.
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The current study atlempts at spotlightinga set of pragmatic phenomena included in the quranic verses related to prophet essa. This is done by rnetorical analysis of these verses making use of the modern view of pragmatics . the study seeks to uncover certain phenomena starting with the defintion of pragmatics , moving toits origin and formation . the study also discusses topics such as the functional content of pragmatics and rhetoric , verbal verbs theory ‘ Arabic rhetoric‘ and pragmatics in the old Arabic heritage . the study then shifts to the practical phase as it studies the techniqnes of affermation , interogation, command , and negativecommand ‘the latter includes topics as diversion from past to future‘‘apostrophe ‘anastrophe‘ ‘elision ‘ circumlocution ‘ wholeanddetail ‘ and epanodos . simile , metaphor‘ and Metonymy and innuendo
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Chiou, Michael. "Performing Anaphora in Modern Greek: A Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Analysis." Research in Language 11, no. 3 (September 30, 2013): 335–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10015-012-0029-1.
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The paper addresses the problem of interpreting anaphoric NPs in Modern Greek. It includes a proposal of a novel analysis based on the systematic interaction of the neo- Gricean pragmatic principles of communication, which provides a neat and elegant approach to NP-anaphora resolution. The findings of this study provide evidence for an account of NP-anaphora in terms of the division of labour between syntax and pragmatics and more accurately in terms of the systematic interaction of the neo-Gricean pragmatic principles.
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Rocha Azevedo, Dora Savoldi da. "Postcolonial Pragmatics: Changing lenses." Revista da ABRALIN 19, no. 2 (September 10, 2020): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.25189/rabralin.v19i2.1656.
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Seeking to account for the specificities of interactions in postcolonial societies contexts, Eric Anchimbe and Richard Janney (2010) developed the Postcolonial Pragmatics framework, which was the topic of Anchimbe’s homonymous lecture in Abralin ao vivo. As a result of colonization and the consequent mixture between indigenous and colonizers ways of life, postcolonial settings are marked by hybridized forms of concepts, language, social norms, and speech (e.g. code-mixing and code-switching), thus leading to communication strategies which have been shaped by these heterogeneous environments. Postcolonial Pragmatics consists of a framework based on an emic perspective which aims at taking into account the hybrid settings found in postcolonial societies in pragmatic analysis. Anchimbe presents us with a new theoretical lens through which phenomena drawn from these hybrid settings are considered central to the Pragmatics’ enterprise.
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Nazakat and Muhammad Safeer Awan. "Hybridity and Linguistic Pluralism: A Pragmatic Analysis of University Academic Discourse." Global Social Sciences Review III, no. III (September 30, 2018): 447–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(iii-iii).25.
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The language used in academic texts and pedagogy is referred as academic discourse. Being student and teacher, the researchers observed that mixing of home language with academic language was a common practice in many institutions. Some linguists appreciate it, while others resist it by claiming it detrimental to objectivity and neutrality. Chiang (2006) finds role of teacher’s discourse a determining factor in pedagogy. Current study was conducted to observe the phenomenon of hybridization in academic discourse and to assess it in the light of pragmatics. Pragmatic analysis is known as a useful method to infer covert and implicit meanings of language (Savignon, 2007) and the researchers deemed it appropriate for current research. The pragmatic analysis could provide a newer outlook on academic discourse. Data was collected through observation sheet from the classes. Questionnaire was also used to get relevant data from teachers. The findings revealed that teachers often relied on cultural and ideological underpinnings in their pedagogy. The individual conversational styles were also responsible for different mode of hybridization and subsequently reinforced diverse facet of discourse different in pragmatic nature. The data was first analyzed for hybridization followed by its pragmatic analysis. The study was important in the backdrop of one of many beliefs, that meaning never remains fixed and it resides in socio-cultural structures and lack of pragmatic knowledge among interlocutors impedes semantic proficiency. The study revealed utility of pragmatic competence in turning this mixing of discourses in a class into a continuum. It also found that knowledge of academic pragmatics could reinforce semantic proficiency.
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Barakhas, Widad Almas, and Sarab Khlil. "A Pragma-Stylistics Analysis of Lowell and Snodgrass’ Confessional Poems." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 4, no. 11 (November 29, 2021): 170–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.11.18.
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Analyzing any text according to pragmatic principles means approaching the text's meaning and the writer's intention. This study investigates the role of pragmatics theories in interpreting and understanding poetic text and their impact on the poet's style. In other words, how the poets exploit pragmatics theories, such as Searle's speech acts, Grice's maxims, and deixis, in their style of writing to convey their intended meaning to the readers. Therefore, two confessional poems are selected to be analyzed pragma-stylistically: The Dolphin was written by Robert Lowell (1973), and Mementos 1 was written by W. D. Snodgrass (1960s). The current study aims to: 1) analyze the texts of selected poems by applying pragmatics theories to find out the style of each poet through which one can reach the right interpretation of the poem.2) find out the most dominant type of speech acts used by each poet. 3) investigate any flouting of Grice's maxims. 4) identify types of deixis and find out the most dominant types used in confessional poems. The present study concludes that 1) representative speech acts are performed more than other types.2) most of Grice's maxims are flouted, and the quantity maxim is the most dominant flouted by each poet. 3) Both poets use person deixis more than other types.
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Mahmood, Rauf Kareem. "Pragmatics between Microlinguistic and Macrolinguistic Levels of analysis." Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 6, no. 3 (May 3, 2017): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjflt.v6i3.1659.
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The paper discusses the researcher's new hypothesis to drag pragmatics out of the closed box of microlinguistics and separate it from semantics. To the researcher, pragmatics, if approached objectively, could be relocated as a vital area of interdisciplinary research; otherwise it would shake in the basic foundations of grammar and meaning contrasted with contextual values of utterances. This paper hypothesizes that pragmatics is a macrolinguistic level of analysis, not, as commonly thought, a microlinguistic level. Hence, pragmatics could be more properly listed with Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Text linguistics and other relevant areas, not with phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, though the last, mistakenly to the researcher, is twinned with pragmatics as two faces of the same coin, namely meaning.
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Al-Hindawi, Fareed H., and Ramia Mirza. "Pragmatics of Sports News Reports." International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 2 (December 23, 2017): 244. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n2p244.
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The paper aims to build the structure of sports news reports by bridging them to pragmatics hence coming up with their pragmatic structure. Accordingly, two pragmatic concepts (viz. cooperative principle and speech acts) are believed to be helpful in performing this task. Moreover, the notion of dialectical relevance, developed by Walton (1995), is utilized. This is done by pragmatically analyzing eight news reports of different sports (football, tennis, formula1, and golf, respectively) taken from the BBC sports official website. The analysis is carried out by means of an eclectic model developed by the study itself to serve this aim. This type of analysis is supported by a statistical analysis to quantitatively validate its findings. The two types of analysis basically show that there are no major differences between the games analyzed as to employing the various strategies compiling the aforementioned analytic tool.
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Hasanah, Nurul, and Japen Sarage. "REQUESTING SPEECH ACT OF UTTERANCES IN OCEAN’S ELEVEN BY STEVEN SODERBERGH: A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS." UAD TEFL International Conference 1 (November 20, 2017): 410. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/utic.v1.194.2017.
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The term sentence and utterance are made different in terms that the former refers to syntactic structure, while the latter points out the actual function of such a structure in real communication. The same things apply to the terms request and requesting. The first term suggests the structural characteristics of sentence asking people to do something while the second term indicates the real sentence causing people to do something. The first deals with formal grammar while the second deals with pragmatics the actual use of language in communication.This article attempts to see requesting in its possible different syntactic forms as parts of speech acts in Ocean’sEleven by Steven Soderbergh. A pragmatic approach is applied since it uses context as a part of linguistic analysis involving the speaker, addressee, time, location, and genre in the conversation. A syntactic form of a sentence only cannot represent the real meaning of intention.The analysis of speech act of the conversation in the film brings us to an understanding that pragmatics encourage us to comprehend different kinds of setting to achieve requesting as a part of language use. Pragmatics as a branch of linguistics reveals mutual understanding between the speaker and the hearer.
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Usó-Juan, Esther, and Alicia Martínez-Flor. "Fostering learners’ (meta)pragmatic awareness through film analysis." Language Value 14, no. 1 (July 27, 2021): 85–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/languagev.5821.
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Film-based dialogues have been praised in the current work on pragmatics as a potentially useful source that can enhance learners’ (meta)pragmatic awareness of the pragmatic phenomena in actual communicative events. Following this view, this paper first outlines the concept of (meta)pragmatic awareness and explains, drawing on McConachy and Spencer-Oatey (2020), the different theoretical perspectives examining the role that awareness plays in developing learners’ pragmatic ability. Then, it surveys studies that have reported benefits of bringing audiovisual input through films into the classroom. Finally, the analysis of two film-dialogues is presented to illustrate how it may foster learners’ awareness of communication as a context-dependent act. Along the way, it also highlights selected research-based techniques that can engage learners in critical film analysis.
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Mazzarella, Diana. "Is inference necessary to pragmatics?" New Perspectives on Utterance Interpretation and Implicit Contents 28 (November 28, 2014): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.28.04maz.
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The assumption that pragmatic processes are inferential is standardly held by Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatic theories. Recently, however, it has been challenged by accessibility-based approaches to pragmatics. Recanati (2002, 2004) proposes that primary pragmatic processes (i.e. processes that contribute to the recovery of the explicit content of the utterance) are underpinned by a simple dynamics of activations-and-associations, with no need for any further (specifically inferential) step or ‘confirmatory stage’ to warrant the selected interpretation. Mazzone (2009, 2011) extends this account to secondary pragmatic processes (i.e. processes of implicature derivation): the recovery of the explicit and implicit content of the utterance is the result of a unified associative comprehension process. This paper argues that, on close analysis, the role played by information about the speaker’s mental states (i.e. her beliefs and intentions) indicates that inference is indispensable in an adequate account of pragmatic processing.
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Romero-Trillo, Jesús. "Prosodic modeling and position analysis of pragmatic markers in English conversation." Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 14, no. 1 (April 25, 2018): 169–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2014-0026.
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AbstractThe objective of this article is to investigate the use of three of the most frequent pragmatic markers in English conversation in the London-Lund Corpus, i.e. “well”, “you know” and “I mean”. Specifically, the aim is to study the characteristics of the prosodic patterns and the Tone Unit position in the realization of pragmatic functions by the markers. The article combines the thorough analysis of the corpus data with the description of the function of these elements in the realization of Adaptive Context within the Dynamic Model of Meaning approach to pragmatics and communication.
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Kecskes, Istvan. "Is there anyone out there who really is interested in the speaker?" Language and Dialogue 2, no. 2 (August 13, 2012): 283–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.2.2.06kec.
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This paper discusses two important issues of current pragmatics research as related to dialogue and discourse: interest in the hearer rather than the speaker, and focus on utterance rather than dialogue and discourse segment. These two issues are intertwined, and they are each other’s consequences. It will be argued that current pragmatic theories appear to be hearer-centered and utterance-centered and they consider communication recipient design and intention recognition. This explains why the main interest in these theories is in interpretation: recovery of speaker’s meaning by the hearer. The paper claims that hearer-centeredness is a direct consequence of the fact that pragmatics is an utterance-based inquiry. In order for us to get closer to what exactly the speaker has wanted to say we need to go beyond utterance to dialogue and discourse segment. This would require rethinking and reevaluating, to some extent, what current pragmatics is all about. In fact this process has already started. Several studies have been talking about “narrow pragmatics” and “wide pragmatics” discussing the relationship of pragmatics, dialogue (e.g. Weigand 2001, 2004, 2006, 2010, Cooren 2010) and discourse analysis (e.g. Puig 2003, Taboada and Mann 2006, De Saussure 2007).
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Huang, Yan. "Unarticulated constituents and neo-Gricean pragmatics." Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學 19, no. 1 (January 5, 2018): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lali.00001.hua.
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Abstract In recent years, the concept of unarticulated constitutes has generated a fierce debate both in the philosophy of language and in linguistic semantics and pragmatics. By unarticulated constituent is meant a propositional (or conceptual) constituent of a sentence that is communicated by the speaker in uttering that sentence, but is not linguistically represented in that uttered sentence. The main aim of this article is to provide a neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis of unarticulated constituents, showing that the current existing mechanism of neo-Gricean pragmatic theory can handle unarticulated constituents in a straightforward and elegant way. Second, I defend the neo-Gricean position that the pragmatic enrichment of unarticulated constituents is nothing but a neo-Gricean, pre-semantic conversational implicature. And third and finally, I briefly evaluate an alternative, formal syntactico-semantic analysis of unarticulated constituents.
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Alduais, Ahmed, Issa Al-Qaderi, Najla Alfadda, and Hind Alfadda. "Pragmatics: Mapping Evidence on Enhancing Children’s Use of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Capacities for Interactive Communication." Children 9, no. 9 (August 29, 2022): 1318. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9091318.
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New-born infants communicate from the first minute they come to life. This non-linguistic and non-verbal capacity to interact from the first day they come to life enables them to express their needs and evidence their typical development. This capacity to interact develops to include linguistic and non-linguistic use of verbal and non-verbal interaction, that is, pragmatics. Because pragmatics is heterogeneously structured of semiotic, cognitive, motor and sensory elements so it is vital to ensure successful human interaction. The other language elements (i.e., phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic) are essential inputs for this human interaction outcome (i.e., pragmatics). Accordingly, this study sought to map evidence that pragmatics can enhance children’s use of linguistic and non-linguistic capacities for interactive communication. This was addressed by conducting bibliometric and scientometric analyses of 6554 documents from Scopus, 1167 from WOS and 11,230 from Lens between 1939 and 2022. We analysed the past, present and future developments of the field of pragmatics using bibliometric and scientometric indicators. The scientometric analysis was conducted using CiteSpace 5.8.R3 and VOSviewer 1.6.18 software, which enabled the tabulation, visualisation and measurement of the impact of central influencers in the field of pragmatics. In the light of our results, pragmatics continues to expand in order to understand human interaction in a deeper way and to enhance children’s typical interactions with the environment around them. The group should also include adults or elderly people whose pragmatic language skills have been impaired due to any acquired or developmental disorder, such as a brain injury.
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Malakhova, V. L. "Principal stages of speech pragmasemantic sense formation and methods of its analysis." Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology 27, no. 4 (December 30, 2021): 114–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.18287/2542-0445-2021-27-4-114-121.
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The article is devoted to peculiarities and differences of two linguistic fields semantics and pragmatics. The objective of the work is to state the extent of participation of semantic and pragmatic parameters in the process of sense formation. The relevance of the study is beyond doubt, since the pragmasemantic analysis of discourse functional space helps to identify the potential of linguistic means in the process of forming meanings and their transformation into integral sense under the influence of contextual factors, and to determine optimal ways of expressing communicative intention of the author of the discourse and of providing adequate understanding of the sense by the referent. The author also describes main features, differences and similarities of the concepts text and discourse. The specificity of semantic and pragmatic meanings, their correlation and the degree of participation in formation of discourse functional space are analyzed. On the basis of this, the algorithm for pragmasemantic sense formation is deduced. The author emphasizes that the initial meaning is formed by a semantic meaning, in the process of speech actualizing it is supplemented with a pragmatic meaning, which is further transformed into a pragmatic and semantic and communicative-pragmatic sense. This process is illustrated by fragments from works of fiction by contemporary English-speaking authors. The research uses semantic and pragmatic analysis and discourse analysis as the principal methods. The author describes their features, and proves the viability of their application to the object of the research. The author comes to the conclusion that the pragmasemantic analysis of English discourse makes it possible to understand the mechanisms of formation of meanings and sense of a speech work. The contribution of both semantics and pragmatics to the overall communicative interaction is undeniable, since any communication is necessarily analyzed taking into account semantic and pragmatic aspects.
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Carrió-Pastor, María Luisa, and Beatriz Martín Marchante. "Analysis of pragmatic items in an ESL online adaptive placement test." International Journal of English Studies 18, no. 2 (December 28, 2018): 97–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2018/2/322581.
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The work at hand is part of a wider study the aim of which was to determine what kind of factors influence pragmatic failure in an online adaptive placement test taken by Spanish students in their first year at university. A preceding analysis (Carrió and Martín, 2016) showed the type of personal factors that caused the exam takers pragmatic failure according to their own perception. In this paper, we go deeper and search about what specific pragmatic categories the items more frequently failed in the test belong to, so that we can reach some conclusions about its content validity and state whether the pragmatics construct is underrepresented or not in this test.
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Fitri, Ziaul. "A pragmatic analysis of politeness strategies in Mulan movie." English Education Journal 13, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 185–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.24815/eej.v13i2.21980.
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Pragmatics deals with language use in the context that relates to the speech acts' meaning. Politeness strategies and politeness principles, as the manifestation of pragmatics, are two determining communication factors of both speaker and hearer. This qualitative study was intended to analyze the politeness strategies used by the main character Mulan and her family. The data were collected using the observation checklist adapted from Brown and Levinson (1987) framework for politeness strategies. The findings showed that all of Brown and Levinson’s strategies were found in Mulan’s and the other characters’ utterances in the movie. The most frequently used strategy was positive politeness, which was found to occur four times in the movie. Bald-on record and negative politeness were the second most used strategies in the movie with three occurrences each. While off-record and don’t do FTA occurred twice and once, respectively. The result of the pragmatic analysis showed that the use of politeness strategies in Mulan movie was influenced and determined by the characters’ cultural background.
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Thang, Nguyen Tat. "ENGLISH-MAJORED STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS PRAGMATIC AWARENESS." VNU Journal of Foreign Studies 37, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.25073/2525-2445/vnufs.4662.
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Good command of language, e.g. vocabulary, grammar, does not always guarantee success in communication. Learners of language need to be equipped with both language and the knowledge of how to use it, i.e. pragmatics. This paper investigates the attitudes of English-majored students at a university in Vietnam towards the knowledge of pragmatics of language learners. Data was collected via a questionnaire and the software SPSS version 20 was used for the analysis. The results showed that the majority of investigated students were aware of the role of pragmatics in their language classes. First year students and fourth year students differed in 3 issues: 1) whether good knowledge of language being enough for communication; 2) willingness to take a course on pragmatics; 3) teachers presenting the knowledge of how to use language officially in classes of language. This indicates that instruction about pragmatic knowledge should be taken into consideration in material design and in language classes.
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Arlanova, T. L. "Subject of linguistic pragmatics and aspects of modern pragmatic research." Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology 28, no. 2 (July 14, 2022): 144–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18287/2542-0445-2022-28-2-144-151.
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In the article linguistic pragmatic factors of speech impact in texts of various genres are considered. Pragmatics is closely connected with semiotics, the sign theory, the theory of speech acts. In modern linguistic pragmatic research, the subject of speech, i.e. the speaker with his own communicative attitude and intentions, is put forward. The author of the article sets the objective of defining the methods of adequate pragmatic analysis of an oral and written text of various styles, the author also underlines the fact that information relevant from the point of view of pragmatics may be conveyed by various means, both linguistic and non-linguistic ones, such as the structure of the text of online format. Functional and systematic approach has been used in the study of language means of impact on the information recipient. Traditional division of semiotics into semantics, syntaxand pragmatics may be applied in modern linguistic research. In the article syntactic transpositions of parts of a sentence, which are regularly used in speech, as well as the semantic structure of lexical units of various stylistic reference, are considered. The importance of the context, both syntactic and lexical one, in realization of the word meaning (and consequently of its interpretation by the addressee) is pointed out in practical linguistic research.
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Hosseini, Misagh, and Ehsan Rezvani. "CRITERIA USED BY PROFICIENT VS. LESS PROFICIENT EFL TEACHERS IN PRAGMATIC ASSESSMENT: THE CASE OF REQUEST SPEECH ACT." English Review: Journal of English Education 7, no. 1 (December 9, 2018): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.25134/erjee.v7i1.1529.
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Abstract: The issue of EFL teachers� rating criteria and patterns in Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) assessment is new and needs rigorous analysis. The purpose of this study was to reveal important variables such as raters� criteria and rating patterns by analyzing the ILP assessment process of Iranian non-native English speaking raters (NNESRs) of both high and low proficiency levels based on the request speech act. The data for this study was collected through a discourse completion test (DCT) and a rating questionnaire from 40 Iranian EFL teachers and were later analyzed through descriptive analysis-test and chi-squares. The results showed that raters considered 9 criteria, including pragma-linguistic and socio-pragmatic components of language which raters noted differently through eight request situations. The results showed that raters considered nine criteria, including pragma linguistic and socio-pragmatic components of language which were noted differently through eight request situations. Among the considered criteria, the highest frequencies belonged to the criteria of authenticity, query of preparatory and softness, and interlocutors� relationship used by high proficiency teachers, whereas low proficiency teachers used the highest frequencies of accuracy, style, and directness. The result of the study can have important connotations for teachers to consider teaching L2 pragmatics in language classes and in teacher training courses.Keywords: Interlanguage pragmatics; request; speech act; pragmatic assessment.
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Rahardi, R. Kunjana. "MEMERIKAN FUNGSI KONTEKS SITUASI DALAM PERSPEKTIF PRAGMATIK SIBER." Linguistik Indonesia 40, no. 2 (August 2, 2022): 197–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/li.v40i2.286.
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This research aims at describing the manifestation of situational contexts in the culture-specific pragmatic phenomena in the perspective of cyber-pragmatics. This is a qualitative research. The research data sources are authentic texts taken from social media captions containing situational contexts. The research data are elements of situational contexts found in the authentic utterances in social media captions. The research data are gathered using the observation method employing the note-taking technique. The gathered data are classified and typified to generate types of data in details. Then, the data are analyzed using the distributional analysis method and the pragmatic identity method. The distributional analysis method is used to analyze the linguistic dimensions of this research, while the pragmatic identity method, particularly extra-lingual identity, is applied to analyze the extra-linguistic dimensions of this research. The preliminary research results show that the situational contexts proposed by Geoffrey N. Leech need to be reinterpreted and redefined to adjust to the development of current situational contexts. Situational contexts are inseparable from the digital information technology because language is not immune from the impact of the technology development. Ignoring situational contexts in the perspective of cyber-pragmatics in studying language phenomena will not yield proper research results in the present-day contexts. Keywords: cyberpragmatics, culture-specific pragmatics, konteks situasi, informasi digital
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Agha, Asif. "Stereotypes and registers of honorific language." Language in Society 27, no. 2 (April 1998): 151–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500019849.
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ABSTRACTHonorific registers are formally discrete but functionally stratified systems, in the sense that an apparently bounded set of linguistic forms allows language users to calculate many concurrent aspects of the pragmatic context of language use. This paper argues that native stereotypes about language structure and use play a critical role in formulating the pragmatic value(s) of register systems. The linguist can neither isolate the forms belonging to a register, nor explain their significance in use, independently of appeal to native stereotypes about language. The paper discusses methods for the empirical study and analysis of such stereotypes. Stereotypes that formulate the social identity of language users play a special role within register systems, grounding the significance of pragmatic acts in the attributes of pragmatic actors. Much of the discussion focuses on how such stereotypes are formulated and what their social consequences are. (Honorifics, pragmatics, meta-pragmatics, stereotypes, registers, deference, identity, Tibetan)
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Akinbode, Oluwole. "A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Obituaries In Nigerian Newspapers." AGOGO: Journal of Humanities 6 (February 15, 2021): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.46881/ajh.v6i0.233.
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Since the inception of Pragmatics as an independent approach to meaning has independent linguistic study, the approach to meaning has encountered an enormous change. Meaning has been perceived beyond the sentence level. The aim of this paper was to do a pragmatic analysis of selected obituaries in Nigerian newspapers; Nigerian Tribune, The Nation and The Punch. These papers were purposively selected because obituaries were regularly published and publicized through them in a mournful manner and this called for a critical linguistic study by analyzing the mournful use of language with a view to finding out their effects on the decoders. The study of language has been extended significantly beyond mere description of linguistic properties to the various ways which individual communicators convey meanings in different socio-cultural contexts. The theoretical framework for this study is pragmatics. This is because pragmatics has been able to account for social meanings and give new insights to the understanding of literary texts and thus, helping in formulating strategies for the teaching and learning of language. Three Nigerian newspapers namely Nigerian Tribune, The Nation and the Punch were purposively selected for data collection. Relevant texts on obituaries were extracted from them and were critically analyzed for the purpose of this study. It was found out that relatives and friends of the deceased publicized the death of the deceased as memories and sympathy for the departed souls. It is recommended that obituaries should be used for the teaching and learning of English as a Second Language because funerals and obituaries are a significant aspect of African culture.
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Håkansson, Gisela, and Catrin Elisabeth Norrby. "Grammar and pragmatics." EUROSLA Yearbook 5 (August 2, 2005): 137–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eurosla.5.08hak.
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This paper compares grammatical and pragmatic development in foreign language learners of Swedish. For the analysis of grammatical proficiency, data from translation tasks and essays were tested against the stage model proposed in Processability Theory, which identifies five stages of morpho-syntactic development for Swedish (Pienemann 1998, Pienemann and Håkansson 1999). For the pragmatic analysis a gap-fill task was used, inspired by the discourse completion task (Blum-Kulka 1982, Kasper and Roever 2005), but taking into consideration sequential aspects of the interaction. All tasks were piloted with a control group of Swedish native speakers. The results indicate a relationship between native-like pragmatic command and a high level of morpho-syntactic processability. The findings suggest that students whose grammatical processing capacity is restricted to lower levels find it difficult to contextualise their utterances in a pragmatically appropriate way.