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Making a Real Connection
Ethan Graves Blue 3
Spring 2012
SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
DEFINITIONS
• Semantics – The linguistic study into the meaning of words.
• Pragmatics – The linguistic study into the context of language.
• Linguistic modes- Tools linguists use to study language.
SEMANTICS
• Gives the meaning of the words
• Looks at the root meaning
• Goes beyond the dictionary definition.
• Lexicons are used
SEMANTICS
• What is a lexicon?
• A lexicon is the most basic form of a word from which all the other versions come.
• Examples
• Ring
• Other forms
• Rang, Rung, Ringing
SEMANTICS
• Hadley’s shoe example:
• Hadley’s shoe is blue and orange.
PRAGMATICS
• Provides context to conversation
• Helps people read in between the lines
• Uses direct and indirect speech acts
• Takes social and cultural values/understood meanings into account.
PRAGMATICS
• Direct Speech Acts
• Definition- A direct statement without hidden meaning.
• Types
• Declarative
• Interrogative
• Imperative
PRAGMATICS
• Book Example
• “Pick up the books.”
PRAGMATICS
• Indirect Speech Acts
• Definition- Direct statement which can have a hidden meaning.
PRAGMATICS
• Kevin’s Job Example
• “Sam, have you finished the payroll yet?”
PRAGMATICS IN SOCIETY
• Sandwich Example
• “Woman, go make me a sandwich!”
SYNTHESIS
• Most of the time both linguistic modes are necessary to fully understand conversation.
• They work hand in hand.
SYNTHESIS
• Jamie Example
• “Jamie I have told you ten thousand times to pick up your room. Do not make me tell you again!” “Yes sir, I am coming to clean right now.”
CONCLUSION
• Semantics and Pragmatics are great linguistic modes.
• Without them people could not properly understand conversation.
• To quote Mrs. Harris, “Its not what one says, its how one says it.”
GOVERNING BODIES TO CONSULT
• Modern Language Association
• National Science Foundation
• Purdue Writing Lab
• University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics
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