UNIT 2

The Domain of Pragmatics

• The study of meaning derived from context

• • The study of sentence structure

  
  

• The study of sound patterns

• The study of word formation

Which of the following is an example of deixis?

• She is a talented musician

• This book is interesting

• I want that cookie

• They are coming tomorrow

Presupposition refers to:

• The main idea of a paragraph

• The background assumption of a statement

• The structure of a sentence

• The tone of a conversation

Which of the following is an example of presupposition?

• The King of France is bald

• Where did you park the car?

• I regret telling her the secret

• All of the above

In the context of linguistics, what does anaphora involve?

• The study of word origins

• The reference to something mentioned earlier

• The structure of a sentence

• Pronunciation patterns

An example of Presupposition is

• Is it raining?

• Are you a student?

• Do you know the time?

• Have you stopped eating meat?

Deixis and Indexicality

• Words that have a fixed meaning

• Words that refer to personal characteristics

• Words that require context to understand

• Words that have multiple meanings

An example of Deixis is

• Cats are mammals

• I am here

• Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius

• All squares have four sides

Deixis refers to

• Words or phrases that cannot be fully understood without additional contextual information

• The presuppositions, or assumptions, that a speaker makes about the listener

• The implied meanings that arise from conversational implicatures

• The study of how context influences the interpretation of meaning

Anaphora in pragmatics refers to

• The implicit assumption that a statement or question takes for granted

• The use of a word without a referent in the immediate discourse

• The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer back to another unit

• The repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis