Pragmatics

Which maxims are flouted in this meme?

• quality

• quantity

• relation

• manner

the study of speaker meaning and how more is communicated than is said

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Co-text

• Anaphora

an action in which the form used (e.g. interrogative) does not directly match the function (e.g. request) performed by a speaker with an utterance,

• indirect speech act

• face-threatening act

• face-saving act

• Face

using words such as him or them as a way of “pointing” to a person with language

• Spaital deixis

• Person deixis

• Temporal deixis

• Anaphora

using words such as here or there as a way of “pointing” to a location with language

• Spaital deixis

• Person deixis

• Temporal deixis

• Anaphora

using words such as now or tomorrow as a way of “pointing” to a time with language

• Spaital deixis

• Person deixis

• Temporal deixis

• Anaphora

additional information used by a listener/reader to create a connection between what is said and what must be meant

• Inference

• Refrence

• Face

• Anaphora

an assumption by a speaker/writer about what is true or already known by the listener/reader

• Infrence

• Antecedent

• Cataphora

• Presupposition

an action in which the form used (e.g. interrogative) directly matches the function (e.g. question) performed by a speaker with an utterance

• Infrence

• Antecedent

• direct speech act

• Presupposition

The study of how context influences the interpretation of meaning in language is known as:

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Morphology