Volume : III, Issue : V, May - 2013

Pragmatics as an Independent Level of Language Analysis in Linguistics

Ms. K. Sindhu, G. Karthika

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An extension of the study of meaning or semantics is Pragmatics. Pragmatics deals with the contextual aspects of meaning in particular situations. As distinct from the study of sentences, pragmatics considers utterances, i.e. those sentences which are actually uttered by speakers of a language. Pragmatics is concerned with how people use language within a context, in real–life situations. In pragmatics we study how factors such as time, place and the social relationship between speaker and hearer affect the ways in which language is used to perform different functions. Pragmatics allows investigating how this meaning beyond the words can be understood without ambiguity. The extra meaning is there, not because of the semantic aspects of the words themselves, but because of shå certain contextual knowledge with the writer or speaker of the text. Pragmatics is the study of language from the point of view of users, especially of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction and the effects their use of language has on other participants in the act of communication. A theory of pragmatics would essentially be concerned with the disambiguation of sentences by the contexts in which they were uttered.

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Ms.K.Sindhu, G. Karthika Pragmatics as an Independent Level of Language Analysis in Linguistics Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.V May 2013

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