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Lecture 1 - Intro To Prag
Lecture 1 - Intro To Prag
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1. Introduction to Pragmatics
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Ss mean more than what they say
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Definition
Early 1990s:
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Definition
“Pragmatics is concerned with the study of
meaning as communicated by a speaker (or
writer) and interpreted by a listener (or reader). It
has, consequently, more to do with the analysis
of what people mean by their utterances than
what the words or phrases in those utterances might
mean by themselves. Pragmatics is the study of
speaker meaning ”
(Yule, 1996:3)
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Definition
“Pragmatics is the study of contextual
meaning.”
“Pragmatics is the study of contextual
meaning how more get than is said.”
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Definition
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PRAGMATICS
Pragmatics studies the ways in which
context contributes to meaning.
(1) Sherlock saw the man with binoculars.
outcome.
(Yule, 1996: 57)
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Key Issues: POLITENESS
Good manners and respect for the
feelings of others
(Online Oxford Learner's Dictionary)
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POLITENESS
Kinds of face:
+ Positive face: The need to be connected, to belong
to a group.
+ Negative face: The need to be independent, not
imposed on by others.
Kinds of Politeness:
- Positive politeness: Showing solidarity with another
- Negative politeness: Awareness of another's right
not to be imposed on Yule (1996: 132)
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DEIXIS (Chỉ xuất)
Deixis (“Pointing” via language) Yule (1996:129)
is the use of general words and phrases to
refer to a specific person, place, or time in
context, e.g., the words they, there, and
tomorrow.
Personal deixis
Spatial deixis
Temporal deixis
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REFERENCE (Tham chiếu/Quy chiếu/Sở chỉ)
Reference is an act
by which a speaker uses a word,
or words,
to enable a listener to identify
someone or something
Yule (1996:134)
REFERENCE (Tham chiếu/Quy chiếu/Sở chỉ)
4. Linguistic features and structures are not arbitrary (i.e. they are
purposeful whether or not the choices are conscious or unconscious).
PRINCIPLES OF CDA
8. CDA does not solely interpret texts, but also explains them.
Fairclough, 1995; Van Dijk, 1998; Wodak, 1996
CDA MAIN APPROACHES
Fairclough’s Socio-Cultural Approach
provides a three-dimensional framework [(i) linguistic description of text;
(ii) interpretation of relationship between discursive processes/interaction and text,
(iii) explanation of relationship between discourse and social and cultural reality].
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