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Chapter 7 Pragmatics

 Pragmatic: an overview

 Definition

 What are the differences between the two linguistic studies of meaning – semantics and pragmatics?

 Deixis and reference

 Definition

 Classification of deixis

 Person deixis

 Place deixis

 Time deixis

 Discourse deixis

 Social deixis

 The deictic center

 Speech act

 Definition

 The constative –performative dichotomy

 The trichotomy of speech acts

 Locutionary speech act

 Illocutionary speech act

 Perlocutionary speech act

 Taxonomy of speech acts

 Austin: Verdictive, Exercitives, Commissives, Behabitives, expositive

 Searle: assertive, directives, commissive, expressives, declaration.

 Indirect speech acts

Indirect speech acts are those in which there is no correspondence between a structure and a function. Direct speech acts are straightforward, whereas indirect speech acts are polite.

 Pragmatic presupposition

Pragmatic presupposition can be defined as a relation that holds between a speakers and the appropriateness of a sentence in a context or an appropriate use of the sentence in the context.

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