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Review of Pragmatics and its application

Review of Pragmatics and its application. Week 6 Language in context. Pragmatics?. Pragmatics. Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics concerned with speech acts , and how communication is achieved in a given instance of language use;

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Review of Pragmatics and its application

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  1. Review of Pragmatics and its application Week 6 Language in context

  2. Pragmatics? Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  3. Pragmatics. • Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics concerned with speech acts, • and how communication is achieved in a given instance of language use; • it studies how the transmission of meaning depends not only on the linguistic knowledge (e.g. grammar, lexicon etc.) of the speaker and listener, • but also on the context of the utterance • knowledge about the status of those involved, the inferred intent of the speaker, and so on.[1

  4. Physical places Convention of the culture and personal relationship • the context of the utterance, • Where? • Situation? • knowledge about the status of those involved, Who? Relationship? • the inferred intent of the speaker,  Why? Register Pressuposition Direct Indirect Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  5. A: Is this your pencil? • B: Yes, thanks. • A: Is this your daughter? • B: Yes, • A: Wow! Where? With who? Relationship? Why? Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  6. Situations 1: You are walking on the street. A stranger comes to you and ask for money. What would you do? 2: You bought a hand bag from a local shop. At home, you found a big scratch inside the bag. You went to the shop but the shop keeper is not the one who sold the bag to you. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  7. Contextual assumption • The spatial: where • Temporal: when (before Tuesday) • Relationship: giving order Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  8. Pragmatics Direct, indirect. Context, Convention, Relationship Register, Conversational implicature, Conventional implicature, Presupposition, Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  9. Regular nouns Which one? • A noun is not clear. • Look at the cow. (which cow?) Look at the cow!

  10. Homework • Read chapter 3. Transcultural Performance in Classroom Learning • Summarize ‘Transculturation, and culture. Describe how Culture affects bodily motion of people and how time and space affects people’s performance. Explain how the concepts of culture in this book can be applied to pragmatics. Choose one dialogue and explain. • How Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  11. Homework 2 • Read ‘A continuum of drama approaches in second language learning and teaching.’ • Describe types of role-plays and drama activities and how those different types are beneficial in language learning. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  12. Midterm • 1. Introduction • 2. Literature review • 3. lesson plan using one of drama activities. Explain what pragmatic aspects are used and why it is used to specific students. • 4. Conclusion. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

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