Pragmatics

The name of group :

1. Dinda Ayu widowati
2. Disya Rusmadinanti
What is Pragmatics ?
• Definition
1. Pragmatics is not simple as the study of speaker
meaning,but is has relation to its background, as
George Yule (1997:3)

2. Pragmatics is study of meaning as communicated

by a speaker or writer and interpreted by a listener
or reader.
Example
• I have got a new boat and now I have a
specific picture of the boat and you have a
different one in your mind.
Deixis
oDefinition
Deixis is certain function words that refers to parts of the
physical-social-temporal context of the speaker or writer
and their referents can only be known that context (it can
only be interpreted throught their context)

oThree kinds of deixis

1. Person deixis
2. Spatial deixis
3. Temporal deixis
1. Person Deixis
• Definition
Relates to the role of participants involved in language
events. This deixis is ussualy a pronoun.

1.) Those directly involved (e.g the speaker, the addresse)

2.) Those not directly involved (e.g. over hearers—those who
hear the utterance but who are not being directly adressed),
3.) Those mentioned in the utterance. It refer to pronoun. It
consist of three part division :
• First person (I)
• Second person (you)
• Third person (he, she, it)

o Example : I am going to the library

Would you like to have breakfast ?
2. Spatial Deixis
• Definition
Spatial deixis is the form word that can be used to
indicate location. It refers to adverb “here” and “there”,
and the demontratives “this” and “that”

Example :
1. I like this cake
2. She was sitting over there
3. James hasn’t been here yet, is he there with you ?
3. Temporal Deixis
• Definition
Temporal the form word that can be used to indicated
the time, such as now, then, yesterday, today, tomorrow, last
week and so on.

Example : It is raining now, but I hope when you read this

it will be sunny
Speech Act
• Definition
The actions performed via utterances are generally called
speech act.

• Three things in speech act, based on Austin (1962).

1. Locution
2. Illocution
3. Perlocution
 Locution Illocution Perlocution
• Definition • Definition • Definition
1. What is said and 1. What the speaker 1. The message that
the utterance. intends to the addressee gets,
2. The act of saying communicate to the his interpretation of
something in addressee. what the speaker
words and 2. Illocution is the says.
sentences in intention of the 2. Whereas
accordance with speaker that he or perlocution of that
the meaning in the she wants someone utterance is the
dictionary. to turn the lamp on. result that the lamp
was on.
• Example
This room too dark
Thank You 