The document outlines the 3 stages in the development of pragmatics. The first stage occurred in the 1930s when the term was first used as a branch of semiotics. The second stage from 1950-1960 saw the establishment of speech act theory and implicature theory. The third stage began in 1977 with the first journal of pragmatics and 1983 books that established pragmatics as an independent discipline, showing it had developed through 3 distinct periods over nearly 50 years.

2. 3 stages of development
 There are three stages in the development of
pragmatics.
 The 1st stage occurred in 1930s. The term “Pragmatics”
was used at a the 1st time. It was the branch of
Semiology/semiotics= the study of signs.

5. Pragmatics

14.  In 1938, Carnap said that pragmatics should focus on
relationship between users, words and reference
relationship.
 In 1940, Charles Morris divided semiology into 3 parts:
syntactics/syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
 Then, the 2nd stage: From 1950 to 1960: 3 philosophers:
Austin, Searle and Paul Grice established their theory
of Speech act and implicature theory.

15.  The 3rd Stage: in 1977, Jacob L. Mey published the 1st
Journal of Pragmatics in Holland.
 In 1983, Levinson wrote his book “Pragmatics” whereas
Geoffrey Leech wrote his “Principle of pragmatics”.
 In 1988,the set up of International Pragmatics
Association (IPrA). This was a year which noted as a
year when pragmatics turned into an independent
discipline.

16. Schools of Pragmatics
 There are two schools of pragmatics: Br. And
Am.school and European School.
 British and American school had a focus on sentence
structure and grammar: deictic
expression, conversational
implicature, presupposition, speech and conversational
structure. It was called : Micro-pragmatics.

17.  The European school had a wider focus. It focused on
macro-pragmatics scope like conversational
analysis, cultural anthropology, social linguistics and
psycholinguistics in the process of communication.