English Linguistics (pragmatics)

PRAGMATICS

Studies the USE OF LANGUAGE. It analyses the:

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1. SITUATIONAL CONTEXT: Situation which develops in the text,

what is around you when you product a text. The PHYSICAL

SPACE.

2. BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: What the interlocutor knows. We

take it for granted.

3. INTERPERSONAL KNOLEDGE: is related to the participant tht

anybody else have. The others maybe are excluded. IS SPECIFIC.

Could be acquired with INTERACTION to share something.

CO-TEXT: It is the LINGUISTICS. It is the text that sorroungs the text we

are analysing.

• PRECEDING AND FOLLOWING TEXT

that sorrounds the text

• SET OF REFERENCES

LINGUISTICS ELEMENT GIVES:

COHERENCE: it is a deeper level. It is the logical structure of the

• text.

COHESION: it is superficial. It refers to gramathics.

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The CONTEXT is important when there are:

GOOD REFERENCES. That makes the text coherent and with

• cohesion.

GOOD USE OF ADVERBS AND ADJECTIVES. That gives a good

• context.

TYPES OF REFERENCES:

EXOPHORIC REFERENCES: it takes you OUTSIDE th text.

• EXOPHORA: mention of an object with previous mention.

DEIXIS: referring expression which refers to particoular

– elements in the text. There are 4 types of deixis: