Linguistics

Linguistics

1. pragmatics

   • Deals
     • Whith the meaning of words in context,that is how the listener makes inference to interpret the meaning of the speaker

2. semantics

   • Deals
     • Aspects of meaning that do not very from one context to another
       • In the comunication the meaning is linked to the following factors
         • Deixis
           • Means
             • "Point" or "show" and designate the property that some linguistics elements have,mainly pronouns and adverbs
               • They could be
                 • Social Deixis
                   • Concerns the social information that is encoded within various expressions
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                 • Spatial Deixis
                   • it indicates the relative distance of people and things. Contemporary English makes use of the adverbs here and there for the basic distinction.
                 • Personal Deixis
                   • Personal deixis encodes the participants´ roles in a speech event and shows itself typically in personal and possessive pronouns
         • The structure of information
           • Means
             • The way for speakers to make assumptions about knowledge accesible to their listeners to construct their sentences
               • There are these
                 • Knowledge computable from physical context
                 • Knowledge thta is available from what has already been said
                 • Knowledge available from backgroud or common knowledge