BDB 301-302 Dilbilim Temel Kavramları I (Introduction to Linguistics)

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BDB 301-302 Dilbilim Temel Kavramları I

(Introduction to Linguistics)

Dr. Mustafa Güleç

Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi (DTCF)

Batı Dilleri ve Edebiyatları Bölümü,

Hollanda Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı

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What is pragmatics?

• Definition of Pragmatics

• the study of the practical aspects of human action and thought.

• the study of the use of linguistic signs, words and sentences, in actual situations.

• Pragmatics outlines the study of meaning in the interactional context

• It looks beyond the literal meaning of an utterance and considers how meaning is constructed as well as focusing on implied meanings.

• It considers language as an instrument of interaction, what people mean when they use language and how we communicate and understand each other.

• Pragmatics is the study of meaning in language in a particular context, meaning the place that the thing is said, who says it, or the things that have already been said.

Also, pragmatics studies how people speak when both know something.

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What are pragmatics in linguistics?

• Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning.

• The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called pragmatic competence.

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What is pragmatics and examples?

• Pragmatics is the study of how words are used, or the study of signs and symbols.

• An example of pragmatics is how the same word can have different meanings in different settings.

• An example of pragmatics is the study of how people react to different symbols.

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What is pragmatics analysis?

• Pragmatics is a part of the discourse analysis, they are closely related.

• The pragmatics studies the behavior of the subject who speaks in action and the analysis of the discourse studies, the verbal, nonverbal and nonverbal languages.

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What are the types of Pragmatics?

• We'll consider four aspects of pragmatics in this lecture:

• speech acts; rhetorical structure; conversational implicature; and the management of reference in discourse.

• Speech acts. ...

• Conversational implicature. ...

• Rhetorical Structure. ...

• Managing the flow of reference in discourse.

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What is pragmatic context?

• Pragmatics attempts to analyze how it happens that often more is communicated than said.

• Types of Contexts pragmatics is the study of the contribution of context to meaning.

• Context of an utterance consists of- speaker, the sentence which is uttered, the act performed in the uttering of sentence, and the hearer.

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How is pragmatics different from semantics?

• Semantics is the study of meaning, or more precisely, the study of the relation between linguistic expressions and their meanings.

• Pragmatics is the study of context, or more precisely, a study of the way context can influence our understanding of linguistic utterances.

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Why is it important to study pragmatics?

• The education of pragmatics is necessary and important in our globalized world.

• For avoiding miscommunication caused by cultural difference, being familiar with diverse cultures and pragmatics is essential.

• Studies of Pragmatics emphasize the appropriateness in inter-cultural discourses.

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References:

• Birner, Betty, J. 2012. Introduction to Pragmatics, Wiley-Blackwell.

• Levinson, Stephen C. 2008, Pragmatics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

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