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    2.1.1 Referential cohesion Anaphoric and cataphoric reference - Anaphoric reference: points the reader or listener backwards to a previously mentioned entity‚ process or state of affairs. Eg: The postman has just left. He forgot to get the signature. - Cataphoric reference: points the reader or listener forward to identify the elements to which the reference items refer further into the text. Eg: He can sense something really bad incoming. The storm is approaching. Personal‚ demonstrative and

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    Pragmatics First published Tue Nov 28‚ 2006 When a diplomat says yes‚ he means ‘perhaps’; When he says perhaps‚ he means ‘no’; When he says no‚ he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no‚ she means ‘perhaps’; When she says perhaps‚ she means ‘yes’; When she says yes‚ she is not a lady. Voltaire (Quoted‚ in Spanish‚ in Escandell 1993.) These lines — also attributed to H. L. Mencken and Carl Jung — although perhaps politically incorrect‚ are surely correct in reminding us that more

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    SEMANTICS & PRAGMATICS Analysis of Two Texts‚ 1500 WORD Linguistics is the science of a language. Linguists depend on the use of certain aspects in order to analyse‚ describe and explain a human language; these aspects include semantics and pragmatics. Semantics can be defined as the study of "meaning" of lexical words and expressions independently of context. Where pragmatics is the process of recognising the "invisible meaning" of lexical items and expressions; taking into account the speaker’s/

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    Homeschooling Might Not Be the Answer Homeschooling can be a wonderful option for people looking for an alternative to traditional school. Homeschooling is a school in which parents teach their children an academic curriculum at home instead of sending them out to a public or private school.  However‚ homeschooling is not for everyone and it might not be the right choice in a number of circumstances. Homeschooling: Requires Time Homeschooling requires time.  Homeschooling is a full time job‚ and

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    University of San Carlos – Technological Center ENGL 102N – Introduction to Linguistics A Written Report on Pragmatics Presented by: John Reyrani E. Cadeleña Mark Christian A. Generalao Jan Kentrex C. Palalay AB Linguistics & Literature – III Presented to: Ms. Cindy Augusto‚ MA 12:30-1:30 PM MWF PRAGMATICS A subfield of linguistics that studies how people comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in a concrete speech situation

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    1 Types of pragmatics 1.2 Pragmatics and linguistics 1.3 Structure of the book 2 Semantics and Pragmatics 2.1 The borderline 2.2 Sentences and utterances 2.3 Language and logic 2.4 Mood 2.5 The explicit and the implicit 2.6 Presupposition 2.7 Deixis 19 19 21 23 27 29 32 39 3 History of Pragmatics 3.1 Structuralism 3.2 Logical positivism 3.3 Ordinary language philosophy 3.4 The beginnings of pragmatics 44 44 47 49 52 4 ‘Classical’ Pragmatics 4.1 Speech

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    CHAPTER 1 DEFINITIONS AND BACKGROUND Pragmatics is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker (or writer) and interpreted by a listener ( or reader) and it has more to do with the analysis of what people mean by their utterances than what the words or phrases in those utterances might mean by themselves. Pragmatic is the study of the speaker meaning. It is involves the interpretation of what people mean in a particular context and how the context influences what is said

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    MALCOLM It won’t be long before I reward each of you as he deserves. My thanes and kinsmen‚ I name you all earls‚ the first earls that Scotland has ever had. We have a lot to do at the dawn of this new era. We must call home all of our exiled friends who fled from the grip of Macbeth’s tyranny‚ and we must bring to justice all the evil ministers of this dead butcher and his demon-like queen‚ who‚ rumor has it‚ committed suicide. This‚ and whatever else we are called to do by God‚ we will do at the

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    Aristotle :(384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath‚ a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects including physics‚ metaphysics‚ poetry‚ theater‚ music‚ logic‚ rhetoric‚ linguistics‚politics‚ government‚ ethics‚ biology‚ and zoology Aristotle’s scientific method :Like his teacher Plato Aristotle’s philosophy aims at the universal . Aristotle however found the universal in particular things ‚ which he called the essence of things ‚ while Plato

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    PRAGMATICS ACQUISITION I. INTRODUCTION In communications‚ one meaning or one function can be said with various form / structure. For instruction others‚ speaker can express it by imperative sentence‚ declarative sentence‚ or even with interrogative sentence. In communication‚ we sometimes experience of miscommunication because of we have a difference perception of a speaker’s intended meaning. From the simple description above‚ pragmatics is the correct one to be learnt because pragmatics helps

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