Pragmatics

Pragmatics

1. Is a branch of lingüistics concerned with the use of language is social context.

   • And the way people produce and comprenhed meanings through.

2. The pragmatic constitutes 3 components.

   • Deixis Inference Reference

3. Deixis

   • A deictic expression or deixis is a word or phrase (such as this, that, these, those, now, then, here) that points to the time, place, or situation in which a speaker is speaking.
     • Deixis is divided into 3
       • Place Time Personal
         • Place
           • Spatial deixis is the specification of the relative location of the participants at the time of communication.
             • This is codified through the demonstratives (this, that, that) and the adverbs of place (here, there, above, below, above).
         • Time
           • Temporary deixis places the speaker's perspective on the past, present and future.
             • This type of deixis is grammatized in the adverbs of time (now, tomorrow, then) and in the tense.
         • Personal
           • Personal deixis is carried out using personal pronouns. The speaker as a first person (me), addresses a statement to the listener as a second person (you), and could be talking about a third person, he or she.
             • Personal deictic expressions include personal pronouns (me, you, him), possessive (me, you, his, mine, yours, his) reflective (me, you, se) and reciprocals (us, you), singular and plural

4. Inference

   • Making sense of requieres an inference to make the connection.
     • Such inferences depend on assumed knowledge wich, as in, may be much more specific.
     • The inference can be considered so automatic for some speakers.

5. Reference

   • Is a relation between objects in which one objects designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to another object.
     • Among all members of a community who share a comon language and culture.
     • There is a convention that particular refering expression will be used to always refer to certainn entities.