Pragmatics_Chapter 1,2,3_MON

1.    Pragmatics is involved in the study of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  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