2. Over the past 30 years or so pragmatics
has grown into a well established secure
discipline in institutional terms. Pragmatics
is the science of the relation of signs to
their interpreters. Pragmatics is concerned
not with language as a system or product ,
but rather with the interrelationship
between language form, messages and
language users
3.
Pragmatic meaning It is often assumed
that the task of semantics is to describe
and explain linguistic meaning whereas
`pragmatics` is concerned with the study of
meaning that linguistic expressions receive
in use.
4. Assigning reference in context A listener
need to assign reference to the words that
a speaker uses, and since there is no
direct relationship between entities and
words, the listener typically hast to make
interferences as to what the speaker
intends to identify.
5.
Assigning sense in context Observations
show that contextual meaning is not fully
determined by the words that are used ;
there is a gap between the meaning of the
words that are used by the speaker and
the thought that the speaker intend to
express by using those words on a
particular occasion.
6. Working out implicated meaning The main
fact easily lie not with the thought
expressed by the utterance but rather with
the thought that the hearer assumes the
speaker intends to suggest.
