Pragmatics: Some Basic Principles and Procedures

The importance of pragmatics to language studies is that it enables scholars and students to understand the principles and procedures guiding the interpretation of socio-cultural and contextual meanings of utterances. In this paper, we describe certain terms, principles and procedures of the pragma...

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Huvudupphovsman: Adegbite, Wale
Materialtyp: Book chapter
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: 2014
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Sammanfattning:The importance of pragmatics to language studies is that it enables scholars and students to understand the principles and procedures guiding the interpretation of socio-cultural and contextual meanings of utterances. In this paper, we describe certain terms, principles and procedures of the pragmatics of language while exemplifying the discussion with some English utterances.