INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

PRAGMATICS

SUPPORTING LECTURER:
YOGA PRIHATIN, M.PD

ARRANGED BY:
1. AGHNIA
2. RIZQA LESTARI
3. TAMARA OKTAVIANI P
DEFINITION

Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics concerned with the use

of language in social contexts and the ways in which people produce
and comprehend meanings through language. ( from Wikipedia)
 Origins of the field
Pragmatics was a reaction to structuralist linguistics as outlined
by Ferdinand de Saussure. In many cases, it expanded upon his idea
that language has an analyzable structure, composed of parts that can
be defined in relation to others. Pragmatics first engaged only
in synchronic study, as opposed to examining the historical
development of language.
 Related fields
Pragmatics is describes generally the forces in play for a given
utterance, it includes the study of power, gender, race, identity, and
their interactions with individual speech acts.
Areas of interest
The study of the speaker's meaning, not focusing on the phonetic or
grammatical form of an utterance, but instead on what the speaker's
intentions and beliefs are.
The study of the meaning in context, and the influence that a given context
can have on the message. It requires knowledge of the speaker's identities, and
the place and time of the utterance.
EXAMPLES AND OBSERVATIONS
Pragmatists focus on what is not explicitly stated and on how we
interpret utterances in situational contexts.
Pragmatics and Human Language Behavior. The general answer
is: pragmatics is needed if we want a fuller, deeper, and generally
more reasonable account of human language behavior.