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Socio Pramatics
Socio Pramatics
Socio Pramatics
The pragmatics chapter, on the other hand, aims to make students aware of
the various communicative strategies that are used in every-day-life communication.
It also aims to study the influence of these strategies on how messages are
conveyed by speakers and understood by listeners and how a speaker can influence
and dominate his audience.
2- Contents
a- Sociolinguistics:
Varieties of language
Speech Communities
Language, Dialects and Isoglosses
Social Dialects
Idiolects and Registers
Standard Languages
The Wave Theory
Diglossia
Languages in Contact
b- Pragmatics:
Definition of Pragmatics
Speech Acts
Indirect Speech Acts
The Conversational Principle
Presupposition
Mitigation
Modification of Illocutionary Force
Politeness
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3- Text Books
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