Pragmatics_Chapter 1,2,3_MON

1.    Pragmatics is involved in the study of

• Word meaning

• Literal meaning

• Utterance meaning

•   Sentence meaning

Pragmatics is concerned with the study of __________ as communicated by a speaker (or writer) and interpreted by a listener (or reader)

• Utterance

• Structure

• Sentence

• Meaning

Pragmatics involves the interpretation of what people mean in a particular _______ and how the ______ influences what is said

• use/context

•   Pattern/ context

• regularity/context

• context/context

1.    Pragmatics have more to do with the analysis of what people mean by their ­­­­______ than what the words or phrases in those utterance might mean by themselves

• Utterance

• Structure

• Sentence

• Meaning

Pragmatics explore how listeners can make inferences about what is said in order to arrive at an interpretation of the speaker’s _________

• extended meaning.

• intended meaning

•   literal meaning

• Sentence meaning

_________ is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and entities in the world, that is, how words literally connected to things

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Discourse analysis

_______ is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms, how they are arranged in sequence, and which sequences are well-formed

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Discourse analysis

______is without concerning any world of reference or any user of the forms

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Discourse analysis

______ establish the relationships between verbal descriptions and states of affairs in the world as accurate (true) or not, regardless who produces that description

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Discourse analysis

  A source of _____________ in language derives from the fact that most people within a linguistic community have similar basic experience of the world and share a lot of  non – linguistic knowledge

• pattern

• use

• regularity

• assumption