Pragmatics
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 which is usually a conversation.
It studies the aspects of meaning and language use that are dependent on the speaker, the addressee, and other features of the context of utterance.
ETYMOLOGY
The word pragmatics derives via Latin pragmaticus from the Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikos), meaning amongst others "fit for action",which comes from πρᾶγμα (pragma), "deed, act", and that from πράσσω (prassō), "to pass over, to practise, to achieve".
HISTORY
Pragmatics, the youngest linguistic discipline, has a venerable past: all the way from the Greek sophists through the medieval nominalists and nineteenth-century pragmatic thinkers to today’s workers in various sub-disciplines of linguistics, sociology, psychology, literary research, and other branches of the humanities and social sciences.
There are three stages in the development of pragmatics:
1st Stage
1930 - The term “Pragmatics” was used at for the first time. It was the branch of Semiotics.
1938 - Carnap said that pragmatics should focus on relationship between users, words and reference relationship.
1940 - Charles Morris divided semiology into 3 parts: syntactics/syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
2nd Stage
1950 – 1960 - 3 philosophers: Austin, Searle and Paul Grice established their theory of Speech act and implicature theory.
3rd Stage
1977 - Jacob L. Mey published the 1st Journal of Pragmatics in Holland
1983 - Levinson wrote
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 which is usually a conversation.
It studies the aspects of meaning and language use that are dependent on the speaker, the addressee, and other features of the context of utterance.
ETYMOLOGY
The word pragmatics derives via Latin pragmaticus from the Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikos), meaning amongst others "fit for action",which comes from πρᾶγμα (pragma), "deed, act", and that from πράσσω (prassō), "to pass over, to practise, to achieve".
HISTORY
Pragmatics, the youngest linguistic discipline, has a venerable past: all the way from the Greek sophists through the medieval nominalists and nineteenth-century pragmatic thinkers to today’s workers in various sub-disciplines of linguistics, sociology, psychology, literary research, and other branches of the humanities and social sciences.
There are three stages in the development of pragmatics:
1st Stage
1930 - The term “Pragmatics” was used at for the first time. It was the branch of Semiotics.
1938 - Carnap said that pragmatics should focus on relationship between users, words and reference relationship.
1940 - Charles Morris divided semiology into 3 parts: syntactics/syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
2nd Stage
1950 – 1960 - 3 philosophers: Austin, Searle and Paul Grice established their theory of Speech act and implicature theory.
3rd Stage
1977 - Jacob L. Mey published the 1st Journal of Pragmatics in Holland
1983 - Levinson wrote
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