{"id":1123,"date":"2022-04-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/meaning-and-scope-of-pragmatics\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T23:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T21:31:01","slug":"meaning-and-scope-of-pragmatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/ru\/meaning-and-scope-of-pragmatics\/","title":{"rendered":"MEANING AND SCOPE OF PRAGMATICS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quite a number of language scholars have defined pragmatics, which are of interest to us in this study. These definitions throw some light on the nature, principles and scope of pragmatics. Let\u2019s look at a few of them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>(i)                             <\/span><\/span><\/span>Leech & Short (1981:290) – Pragmatics is the investigation into that aspect of meaning which is derived not from the formal properties of words, but from the way in which utterances are used and how they relate to the context in which they are uttered.\u201d Notice the word \u201cutterances\u201d not necessarily sentences.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>(ii)                          <\/span><\/span><\/span>Leech (1983:6) – Pragmatics is \u201cthe study of meaning in relation to speech situations\u201d. The speech situation enables the speaker use language to achieve a particular effect<\/i> on the mind of the hearer.\u201d Thus the speech is goal-oriented (i.e. the meaning which the speaker or writer intends to communicate).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>(iii)                        <\/span><\/span><\/span>Levinson (1983:9) – Pragmatics is \u201cthe study of those aspects of the relationship between language and context that are relevant to the writing of grammars.\u201d Notice in this definition that interest is mainly in the inter-relation of language and principles of language use that are context dependent.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>(iv)                        <\/span><\/span><\/span>Yule (1996:127) – Pragmatics is \u201cthe study of intended speaker meaning.\u201d It is \u201cin many ways … the study of invisible meaning or how we recognise what is meant even when it isn\u2019t actually said (or written).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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