Pragmatics
Pragmatics definition linguistics/Domains studied/examples
Pragmatics analyzes language considering the influence of the communicational context, thus extrapolating the vision of Semantics and Syntax. Pragmatics definition…
Read More »Cohesive devices examples/Types/Substitution/Conjunction
Cohesive Devices Cohesive devices are a number of grammatical and lexical elements of character which are designed to unify the…
Read More »Features of Direct and indirect speech
Direct and indirect speech Direct speech Direct speech characterized by a faithful reproduction of character expression. On one occasion, I…
Read More »Grice’s principle of cooperation
Grice’s principle of cooperation A very general pragmatic assumption of communicative exchange is understood as the principle of cooperation , whereby a certain behavior is expected…
Read More »Inference and its process
Inference and its process The etymological origin of the term inference, we must proceed to move to Latin. There we…
Read More »Deictics and its different types
Deictics Deictics are very important to understand. we will elaborate the Deictics and its different types here. A deictic is a word…
Read More »The conversational implicatures
The conversational implicatures The conversational implicature is the metamessage of the discourse, the covert information. It is what is said through…
Read More »Cataphora and difference with anaphora with illustration
Cataphora In linguistics, it is called a cataphor or cataphoric reference to the anticipation of an idea or a sentence element that, later on,…
Read More »Anaphora and difference with cataphora with examples
Anaphora Anaphora is a rhetorical figure or literary figure, which is used to give the written text a greater beauty or greater expressive power, and…
Read More »The Theory of Relevance
The Theory of Relevance (Sperber and Wilson) The theory of relevance is based on the dimensioning to one of Grice’s…
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