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Mind Map by Juan Rodriguez, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Juan Rodriguez
over 9 years ago
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PRAGMATICS 1
- LEECH
- What does X mean?
- What do you mean by X?
- What does X mean?
- Levinson
- Study of utterance meaning
- Study of utterance meaning
- Not what literally means
but how intentions are
revealed
- 1 Appropriateness
- Relation bt who uses lang and to
whom is directed. Adecuacy of
utterances to the context in which
they occur
- Relation bt who uses lang and to
whom is directed. Adecuacy of
utterances to the context in which
they occur
- 2 Non-literal
(indirect) meaning
- The meaning intended by S, which
may coincide or not with literal
meaning
- The meaning intended by S, which
may coincide or not with literal
meaning
- 3 Inference
- Mental cognitive mechanism, allows
us to draw conclusions about what S
intends to convey, from literal to
non-literal
- Mental cognitive mechanism, allows
us to draw conclusions about what S
intends to convey, from literal to
non-literal
- 4 Indeterminacy
- Utt can be obscure, ambiguous.
Inferences must be drawn to
determine which meaning we think S
intends: I've finished a book
- Utt can be obscure, ambiguous.
Inferences must be drawn to
determine which meaning we think S
intends: I've finished a book
- 5 Context
- Crucial for determining Meaning. Same utt by diff
person in diff situation changes meaning
completely: I love people with good manners
- Crucial for determining Meaning. Same utt by diff
person in diff situation changes meaning
completely: I love people with good manners
- 6 Relevance
- Important principle accounting for how we understand
lang, taking every utt as relevant so we understand them
in whatever way will make them as relevant as possible:
sit down with care
- Important principle accounting for how we understand
lang, taking every utt as relevant so we understand them
in whatever way will make them as relevant as possible:
sit down with care
- 7 Accomodation
- Background knowledge that we accept as
known by S and H, necessary to determine what
people mean by what they say, to make sense of
the conversation
- Background knowledge that we accept as
known by S and H, necessary to determine what
people mean by what they say, to make sense of
the conversation
- 8 Reflexivity
- Comments we provide to show how an
utt fits into a conversation as a
whole/how we want the message to be
taken: Indeed, in fact.
- Comments we provide to show how an
utt fits into a conversation as a
whole/how we want the message to be
taken: Indeed, in fact.
- 9 Misfires
- Utt not having the expected pragmatic
effect, showing how we don't achieve
the norm expected for the talk: Stolen
gun found by the victim.
- Utt not having the expected pragmatic
effect, showing how we don't achieve
the norm expected for the talk: Stolen
gun found by the victim.
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