pragmatics
Language context analysis
Pragmatics is the branch of linguistics concerned with how context shapes meaning—how the same words can convey different things depending on who says them, to whom, and in what situation.
She studies pragmatics and discourse analysis.
Beyond linguistics, pragmatics occasionally appears as a plural noun for practical considerations: the pragmatics of running a small business.
Implicit prior assumption
- entailmentLogical necessity from premises
- enrichmentImprovement through addition
- bridgingConnecting separated things
- accommodationShelter or housing provided
Implicit prior assumption
- anaphoraRepeated opening words
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- definitenessQuality of being exact
Head's anterior surface
- face-savingProtecting one's dignity
- indirectnessLack of straightforwardness
- hedgingNoncommittal maneuvering
- mitigationReduction of severity
honorifics · deference · solidarity · rapport · impoliteness · tact
Alternating speaker roles
- repairRestore to working order
- overlapPartial coincidence of coverage
- interruptionBreak in continuity
- backchannelUnofficial communication pathway
Done for appearance's sake
- ironyMeaning opposite to words
- metaphorImplied identity comparison
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- understatementIntentional diminishment for effect
presupposition
Implicit prior assumption
- entailmentLogical necessity from premises
- enrichmentImprovement through addition
- bridgingConnecting separated things
presupposition
Implicit prior assumption
- anaphoraRepeated opening words
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- definitenessQuality of being exact
face
Head's anterior surface
- face-savingProtecting one's dignity
- indirectnessLack of straightforwardness
- hedgingNoncommittal maneuvering
mitigation · honorifics · deference · solidarity · rapport · impoliteness · tact
turn-taking
Alternating speaker roles
- repairRestore to working order
- overlapPartial coincidence of coverage
- interruptionBreak in continuity
performative
Done for appearance's sake
accessibility
Ease of approach
- language philosophylinguistic analysis, Wittgenstein, Austin, illocutionary force, family resemblance
- languagelanguage, word, words, grammar, spelling
- meaningmeaning, sense, significance, denotation, definition
- interpretationinterpretive dance, translation, interpreting, translating, construing
- linguisticslinguistics, phoneme, phonemes, morpheme, morphemes
- analysis methodstextual analysis, rhetorical analysis, critical analysis, close reading, comparative analysis
pragmaticssyntax
Rules for arranging words
semantics · phonology · morphology · phonetics · grammar
pragmaticsidealism
Belief in noble principles
pure theory · impracticality · dogmatism · rationalism · utopianism
- pragmatic markersWords structuring conversation flow
pragmatic, pragmatism, pragmatist, pragmatically, pragmatists, pragmatical