This post will therefore, explore the relationship between pragmatics and sociolinguistics, starting from their meanings, similarities and then their differences.
Pragmatics and core linguistics are two pillars that uphold the realm of communication. While core linguistics focuses on the structure…
In this article, we shall be considering the interfaces of pragmatics and other linguistic disciplines; in other words we shall…
In an attempt to provide a detailed account of pragmatics strategies in a particular discourse context, it is important to…
This post explores some important theories of pragmatics as well as their contributions to the richness of this area of…
INTRODCTION In this article, we shall be considering some more concepts associated with Grice’s theory of Conversational Implicature and how…
In this post we shall analyse the three major Utterance Acts described in Austin's Theory of Pragmatics. Austin (1962) postulates…
A speech event is what is going on, including both linguistic and non-linguistic activity that make up the context. Every…
Speech acts show the force that utterances have for counting as actions rather than mere giving of information. In this…
politeness principle does not always encourage economy of words as we observed in the case of pragmatic presupposition, rather the…