Pragmatics

an action such as “promising” performed by a speaker with an utterance, either as a direct speech act or an indirect speech act

• Infrence

• speech act

• Imperative

• Presupposition

showing awareness and consideration of another person’s public self-image

• Infrence

• speech act

• Politeness

• Presupposition

a person’s public self-image as described in the study of politeness

• Infrence

• speech act

• Cataphora

• Face

saying something that reduces a possible threat to another person’s self-image

• Infrence

• speech act

• face-saving act

• Face

saying something that represents a threat to another person’s self-image

• Infrence

• face-threatening act

• face-saving act

• Face

the need to be connected, to belong, to be a member of a group

• negative Face

• face-threatening act

• face-saving act

• Positive Face

using words such as this or here as a way of “pointing” with language

• Semantics

• deixis (deictic expressions)

• Physical text

• Anaphora

an act by which a speaker/writer uses language to enable a listener/reader to identify someone or something

• Inference

• Refrence

• Face

• Anaphora

Pragmatics is the study of _____

Which of the following best describes the study of pragmatics?

• The structure of sentences

• The meaning of words

• The use of language in context

• The history of language