National open university of nigeria school of arts and social sciences
Download 0.49 Mb. View original pdf
|
- Navigate this page:
- 5.0 Summary
- 6.0 Tutor-marked Assignment
| 4.0 Conclusion Utterances are made by language users with a lot of assumptions, yet communication goes on smoothly, because there are some naturally designed means by which utterances are understood. Through these means, people can understand even what is not said by using contextual cues, relying on their shared knowledge with the speakers) and their general worldview. Pragmatics has made us to understand how we arrive at meaning of utterances by relying on the context of such utterances. 91 5.0 Summary In this Unit, we have been able to look at an introductory aspect of Pragmatics. Through our study in this unit, we have been able to lay the foundations for the other concepts we shall be examining later in the module. One key concept in Pragmatics is context. It underlies every other concepts that we may one to examine. It is the basis for arriving at any presupposition, entailment, and implicature. It is also the basis for the effective use of deixis in discourse. 6.0 Tutor-marked Assignment (i) Discuss what you understand by the term Pragmatics ii) Differentiate between, Implicature, Entailment and Presupposition using adequate examples. 7.0 References/Further Reading Austin, J. Li) How to Do Things with Words, Cambridge, Mass Harvard University Press Leech, G. N. (1983) Principles of Pragmatics. Longman. Mey, J. (1993) Pragmatics. Balckwell. Morris, CW. Foundations of the Theory of Signs. Chicago University Press Searle, J. (1969). Speech Acts An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. New York, Cambridge University Press Sperber, D. and Wilson, D. (1986): Relevance. Communication and cognition. Oxford Blackwell. Taiwo, R. (2007) Tenor in Electronic Media Discourse in South Western Nigeria Nordic Journal of African Studies 16 (1), 75-89 Yule, G (1996) Pragmatics. Oxford University Press. |