DISCOURSE AND PRAGMATICS

1. What is Pragmatics?

2. Pragmatics and discourse overlap quite a lot but from different perspective

3. Context & discourse

4. An understanding of how language functions in context

5. • situational context • background knowledge context • co-text • social context

6. The cooperative principle & discourse

7. 4 sub-principles or maxims

8. The study of meaning in the relation to the context in which a person is speaking and writing

9. Speech acts & discourse

10. A speech act is an act we perform when saying something

11. Direct speech act & Indirect speech act

12. Flouting maxim & violating maxim