The document discusses two models of communication:
1) The message model, where the speaker encodes a message and the hearer decodes it. This model has problems with ambiguity, reference, intention, nonliteral meanings, and indirectness.
2) The inferential model, where communication relies on shared presumptions and inferential strategies. This model accounts for literal, nonliteral, and indirect language use through recognition of contextual appropriateness and inferences about the speaker's intention. Successful communication is recognizing the speaker's communicative intention.
Deixis is a technical term (from Greek) for one of the most basic things we do with utterances (Yule, 1996, p. 9). It means “pointing via” language. Any linguistic form used to accomplish this “pointing” is called a deictic expression. Deictic expressions are also sometimes called indexical.
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THIS THE THEORY OF OGDEN AND RICHARDS ON THE MEANING. it extract from their book of meaning of meaning. in which they discussed about the semantics triangle.
Deixis is a technical term (from Greek) for one of the most basic things we do with utterances (Yule, 1996, p. 9). It means “pointing via” language. Any linguistic form used to accomplish this “pointing” is called a deictic expression. Deictic expressions are also sometimes called indexical.
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THIS THE THEORY OF OGDEN AND RICHARDS ON THE MEANING. it extract from their book of meaning of meaning. in which they discussed about the semantics triangle.
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Pragmatics and Discourse , context & speech actsNaeemIqbal88
Pragmatics and Discourse
What is pragmatics?
An approach within DA which concentrates on the way language
acquires meaning in use. It has developed from the tradition of the
philosophy of language known as pragmatics.
Focus: The study of contextualised meaning and is concerned with
describing the principles that underlie how we interpret the meaning
behind words: how we get from what we say to what we mean.
Pragmatic approaches tend to be interested in the 'big picture': trying
to formulate generalisable principles about how people produce and
interpret discourse (eg’ the use of humour in business meetings’).
Context
Context is an important concept in DA. Language does not take place in a vacuum and we
need to consider the context in which it occurs in order to understand it.
However, this seemingly unproblematic statement masks the issues and debates that are
ongoing in discourse analysis around the concept of context and its significance.
Two types of context
The 'intrinsic' or 'linguistic' context which refers to information that can be found
within the text that surrounds the language that is being analysed at a particular
moment. It is generally agreed that this type of context is not only useful but essential.
The more problematic type of context lies outside the actual text: what is sometimes
called 'extrinsic' (Schegloff 1997) or 'experiential' context.
This refers to all sorts of information about setting, situation, social circumstances of the
participants such as age, gender, ethnicity and possibly also about the shared
background knowledge and assumptions of the participants.
So, in the example:
'Later, an item about vasectomy and the results of the do-it-yourself competition'
(from Cameron 2001:12)
 The issue with extrinsic context is moving from description to interpretation in
research. Along with describing 'what' is happening in the discourse , it is also
important to interpret 'why' it is happening.
 Extrinsic contextual evidence can be potentially very useful in discussing why
participants say a particular thing in a particular way at a particular time,
however, there is also a danger of 'reading too much into the text' and of
judging which out of many possible interpretations is the 'right' one.
For instance, if the analyst is aware of gender, age or ethic difference among
discourse participants, these variables may well appear to influence the
discourse but how do we know which of these particular variables are
important to the participants in an particular communicative event.
 This is not to say that we should ignore extrinsic context but to suggest that we
need to be cautious about what we select as significant and rigorous about how
we incorporate it into our analyses. Schegloff (1997) advises that the best
option is to use only what can be shown to be relevant to participants.
 Can you imagine a meaningful context for this text?
a. Which of you was the prawns?
I t is based on my understanding about pragmatics. You can add new information in order to achieve benefits from each other. According to many scholars, during communications people need to make a link between both linguistic knowledge and shared knowledge.
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Pragmatics
1. PRAGMATICS:
THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE USE AND
COMMUNICATION
PART 1
CHAPTER9,AN INTRODUCTIONTO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
SIXTH EDITION,ADRIAN AKMAJIAN
ZARA ARIAN
DECEMBER, 2014
3. PRAGMATICS
the study of language use, and in particular the study
of linguistic communication in relation to language
structure and context of utterance.
For instance, pragmatics must identify central uses of
language, it must specify the conditions for linguistic
expressions (words, phrases, sentences, discourse) to
be used in those ways, and it must seek to uncover
general principles of language use.
4. PRAGMATICS
the most pervasive characteristic of human social interaction,
so pervasive that we hardly find it remarkable, is that we talk.
When we focus on what people use language to do, we focus
on what a person is doing with words in particular situations;
we focus on the intentions, purposes, beliefs, and desires that a
speaker has in speaking.
Inner speech or self talk
External or normal speech
5. LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION
What is (successful) linguistic communication?
How does (successful) communication work?
What makes it possible for the speaker to
communicate to the hearer?
7. THE MESSAGE MODEL
A speaker has some message in mind that she wants to
communicate to a hearer.The speaker then produces some
expression from the language that encodes the message as its
meaning. Upon hearing the beginning of the expression, the hearer
begins identifying the incoming sounds, syntax, and meanings; then,
using her knowledge of language, she com-poses these meanings
in the form of a successfully decoded message.
the speaker acts as a ‘‘transmitter,’’ the hearer acts as a ‘‘receiver,’’
and the vocal-auditory path (the sound wave) is the relevant
channel
9. PROBLEMS OF THIS MODEL
First: ambiguity
the Message Model must be supplemented by
principles that take contextual appropriateness into
account to compensate for the pervasive ambiguity
of natural language.
E.g. Flying planes can be dangerous.
10. PROBLEMS OF THIS MODEL
Second: underdetermination of reference
the Message Model must be supplemented by
mechanisms for successfully recognizing the
intention to refer to a specific person, place, or
thing.
E.g. the shrewd politician can be used on different
occasions to refer to different people such as
Winston Churchill or Bill Clinton
11. PROBLEMS OF THIS MODEL
Third: underdetermination of communicative intention
What is missing in the model so far is an account of the
speaker’s communicative intention, which is not, in general,
uniquely determined by the (linguistic) meaning of the
expression uttered, but is part of the message communicated.
E.g. I’ll be there tonight might be a prediction, a promise, or even a
threat, depending upon the speaker’s intentions in the
appropriate circumstances.
12. PROBLEMS OF THIS MODEL
Forth: nonliterality
The Message Model does not account for the additional
fact that we often speak nonliterally; that is, we may not
mean what our words mean. Common cases of this are
irony, sarcasm, and figurative uses of language such as
metaphor.
E.g. Oh, that’s just great can, in the appropriate context,
be taken to mean the opposite of what the words
mean.
13. PROBLEMS OF THIS MODEL
Fifth: indirection
the Message Model does not account for the fact that
we some-times mean to communicate more than what
our sentences mean.
E.g. it would be quite natural to say My car has a flat tire
to a gas station attendant, with the intention that he
repairs the tire: in this case we are requesting the
hearer to do something not reporting.
14. PROBLEMS OF THIS MODEL
Sixth: noncommunicative acts.
Communicating a message is not always the
purpose of our remarks, and this model does not
connect at all with these other uses.(speech acts or
perlocutionary acts)
15. SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION ACCORDING TO
THE MESSAGE MODEL
Linguistic communication is successful if the hearer
receives the speaker’s message. It works because
messages have been conventionalized as the
meaning of expressions, and by sharing knowledge
of the meaning of an expression, the hearer can
recognize a speaker’s message—the speaker’s
communicative intention.
16. THE INFERENTIAL MODEL
in the course of learning to speak our language we also learn
how to communicate in that language, and learning this
involves acquiring a variety of shared beliefs or
presumptions, as well as a system of inferential strategies.
The presumptions allow us to presume certain helpful things
about potential hearers (or speakers),and the inferential
strategies provide communicants with short, effective
patterns of inference from what someone utters to what
that person might be trying to communicate.
18. DIRECT AND LITERAL COMMUNICATION
We say what we mean and we mean what we say
19. DIRECT STRATEGY
Utterance act:The hearer recognizes what expression the
speaker has uttered.
Operative meaning:The hearer recognizes which meaning of
the expression is intended to be operative on this occasion.
Speaker reference:The hearer recognizes what the speaker
is referring to.
Direct:The hearer recognizes what the speaker is intending
to communicate directly.
20. LITERAL STRATEGY
Contextual appropriateness:The hearer recognizes that it
would be contextually appropriate for the speaker to be
speaking literally.
Literal:The hearer recognizes what the speaker is intending
to communicate literally (and directly).
The violation of conversational presumption
contextual inappropriateness.
22. TYPICAL EXAMPLES OF EXPRESSIONS THAT ARE
SOMETIMES UTTERED NONLITERALLY
• The white house(the president or staff)
issued a statement.
• She is a ball of fire.(she’s got a lot of
energy)
23. STRATEGIES FOR NONLITERAL
COMMUNICATION
Contextual inappropriateness:The hearer recognizes that it
would be contextually inappropriate for the speaker to be
speaking literally.
Nonliteral:The hearer recognizes what the speaker is
communicating nonliterally (and directly).
24. INDIRECT COMMUNICATION
We mean something more than what we mean directly.
E.g.The door is over there. (used to request someone to
leave)
E.g. I’m sure the cat likes having its tail pulled. (used to
request the hearer to stop pulling the cat’s tail)
25. STRATEGIES FOR INDIRECT COMMUNICATION
Contextual inappropriateness:The hearer recognizes that it
would be contextually inappropriate for the speaker to be
speaking merely directly—in particular, merely claiming that
the cat does not like having its tail pulled.
Indirect:The hearer recognizes what the speaker is also
communicating indirectly—in particular, that she is
requesting the hearer to quit pulling the cat’s tail.
26. SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION ACCORDINGTO
THE INFERENTIAL MODEL
Linguistic communication is successful if the hearer
recognizes the speaker’s communicative intention.
Linguistic communication works because the
speaker and the hearer share a system of inferential
strategies leading from the utterance of an
expression to the hearer’s recognition of the
speaker’s communicative intent.
27. PROVERBS
Proverbs are traditional sayings having a fixed general sentential form, alluding to
a common truth or general wisdom, with some (rudimentary) literary value,
used to guide action, explain a situation, or induce a feeling or attitude.