Contrastive Pragmatics

Contrastive Pragmatics

1. subfield of linguistics

   • studies how context contributes to meaning
     • Elements:
       • Text
         • Co-text
         • context
   • Words can change during th years and have different meanings

2. Pragmatics deals with space factors

   • Speech acts
     • Utterances that have a performative function in language and communication
     • Types
       • Assertives: commit speakers to the truth
       • Commisives: commit the speaker to some future action.
       • Expressives: state what speakers feel.
       • Directives. call upon the listener to do something.
       • Veridictives: expresses evaluation of something.
       • Declaratives: through them acts are performed.

3. Speech acts have 3 levels

   • locutionary
     • literal meaning
     • Illocutonary
       • intention
       • periocutonry
         • effects on the listener

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