Pragmatic Acquisition
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 the learners to deliver and interpret meaning of utterances.
Pragmatics tends to analyze the functionalism than formalism. Pragmatics is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and the users of those forms (Yule, 1997:4). Pragmatics concerns with the context and function of the speaker’s utterance and how the relationship between speaker’s utterance and context or situation is. Various acts in society, such as representative act, directive, expressive, and declarative, indirect and direct act, or combination from two or more act, are things or interesting phenomena to be studied pragmatically.
Every body experiences pragmatics acquisition since he/she is a child. In the acquisition of pragmatics children are faced with learning diverse skills. They need to learn amongst other things to take the listeners perspective into account and choose the correct pragmatic function they want to convey. There has been considerable work on the acquisition of pragmatics.
Pragmatic is different from semantics in the case of pragmatic studies about act with set of its analysis in the form of acting to say (speech act), while semantics analyze meaning set of lingual (sentence or word) with set of its analysis in the form of meaning. Those phenomena interest the writer to do a library research in order to find more about the information relates to the pragmatics acquisition and the relationship of the semantics and pragmatics.
In short, the writer would like to
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 the learners to deliver and interpret meaning of utterances.
Pragmatics tends to analyze the functionalism than formalism. Pragmatics is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and the users of those forms (Yule, 1997:4). Pragmatics concerns with the context and function of the speaker’s utterance and how the relationship between speaker’s utterance and context or situation is. Various acts in society, such as representative act, directive, expressive, and declarative, indirect and direct act, or combination from two or more act, are things or interesting phenomena to be studied pragmatically.
Every body experiences pragmatics acquisition since he/she is a child. In the acquisition of pragmatics children are faced with learning diverse skills. They need to learn amongst other things to take the listeners perspective into account and choose the correct pragmatic function they want to convey. There has been considerable work on the acquisition of pragmatics.
Pragmatic is different from semantics in the case of pragmatic studies about act with set of its analysis in the form of acting to say (speech act), while semantics analyze meaning set of lingual (sentence or word) with set of its analysis in the form of meaning. Those phenomena interest the writer to do a library research in order to find more about the information relates to the pragmatics acquisition and the relationship of the semantics and pragmatics.
In short, the writer would like to
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