Portal:Pragmatics

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Pragmatics
This portal presents the most central topics in the study of language use.


Fundamental notions

communication -- context -- context dependence -- indexical words -- language use -- organon model -- origo

Conversational pragmatics

conversational maxim -- Cooperative Principle -- fixed-context assumption -- floating of maxims -- Gricean maxims -- implicature -- maxim of manner -- maxim of quality -- maxim of quantity -- maxim of relevance -- relevance

Discourse pragmatics

background -- comment -- contrast -- definite -- definite description -- definiteness restriction -- discourse referent -- focus -- indefinite -- pragmatic presupposition -- presupposition -- semantic presupposition -- topic

Speech act theory

assertive -- commissive -- constative -- declarative sentence -- direct speech act -- felicity condition -- illocutionary act -- illocutionary force -- imperative -- indirect speech act -- locutionary act -- performative -- perlocutionary act -- speech act

Deixis

deictic pronoun -- local deixis -- social deixis -- temporal deixis

Politeness

face -- face-threatening act

Irony

use-mention distinction -- pretense

Associations

Journals

Journal of Pragmatics
Semantics and Pragmatics

Book series

Mouton Series in Pragmatics

Other ressources

Online-Wörterbuch zur Semantik und Pragmatik

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