Pragmatics

1.6.3. Pragmatics of Cross-Cultural Communication No one can deny the fact that the study of cross cultural communication contributed to the field of applied linguistics and offered a plethora of examples of different aspects of communication. Deborah Tannen (1984), in her article: The Pragmatics of Cross-Cultural Communication has identified eight levels of differences in ways of speaking that differ from one culture to another and which represent the essence of language (ibid, 189).…

The Pragmatic Programmer Ethan Rhodes CS-221-1: Book Report October 3, 2017 Body A Pragmatic Philosophy The Cat Ate My Source Code A Pragmatic Programmer is distinguished among their peers by attitude, style, and the philosophy of approaching problems and their solution. The Pragmatic Programmer takes responsibility for their work, and isn’t afraid to admit ignorance or error. When they take responsibility for an outcome, they’re willing to be held accountable for it. “The Cat…

Many individuals go about their lives in an ordinary fashion, until someone around them deceives them. At that moment, this individual may seek the truth; this person will go out of their way to find the facts and the reality of the situation. In a sense, human beings are on a constant quest for the truth, without truly realizing it. However, two famous philosophers did notice this unforeseen quest: Rene Descartes and William James. Rene Descartes delves deeper into the topic of the truth in his…

that it can be easily just become another form of relativism. It can also be argued that many different psychological factors can lead a person to holding a belief, and that through pragmatism it can be justified. It could also be said that the Pragmatic theory itself is contradictory as some beliefs must correspond to a reality, thus causing it to validate the Correspondence Theory of Truth which was criticized by the early pragmatist. It was also not addressed that it we can never say an idea…

fields of knowledge, but many may ask the question: How can this knowledge be trusted? How is knowledge justified? Such questions bothered the intellectual minds of philosophers centuries ago. Philosophers look at truth in three different ways: The pragmatic theory of truth, The coherence theory of truth, and The correspondence theory of truth. Amongst all the theories of truth, The correspondence theory of truth seems to be…

Furthermore, to increase students awareness of pragmatic competence teachers could compare and contrast between the two cultures. Students would be better expose to situations where it is totally different from the other culture. For instance, imagine two students one is middle eastern and the other is from America and they meet accidently at a clinic center. The American man wants to start a conversation so he pays a compliment to the middle eastern man's watch saying your watch looks nice. In…

2.2.2.2. Speech Acts According to Searle (1969) it is a subfield of pragmatics which is concerned with the ways in which words can be used not only to present information but also to carry out actions. According to Searle's view (1969), there are only five illocutionary points that speakers can achieve on propositions in an utterance: assertive, commissive, directive, declaratory and expressive illocutionary points. Speech act is the use of speech focusing on the speakers’ intention of…

Electioneering activities can be tied to context; several studies have been conducted on the pragmatic analysis of electoral speeches. However, this research examined the pragmatic uses and functions of Muhammadu Buhari’s inaugural speech. Searle’s taxonomy of speech acts alongside Halliday’s meta-functions was the theoretical framework deployed in this paper. Findings revealed that Buhari’s inaugural speech is a preponderance of Expressives at 31% and Commissives at 28%. The pronominal analysis…

agree the statement that pragmatics does not need to be given attention in learning English because its basic concept are universal in language. This is because the hearers assume simply that speakers have honored the conventions of interpretation in constructing their utterance while the speakers must make a twofold assumption. (Finegan, 2014, pg287). In order to understand pragmatics better, first we need to know what is pragmatics. According to David Crystal, “Pragmatics is the study of…

meaning, and that is major problem according to sense as the same word or sentence can have more than one sense. Pragmatics move step further to another level of language which can choose suitable sense of this surface meaning according to contextual meaning which is another level of language. The force that control such choice –prevousily mentioned- may relate to speech act theory. So, pragmatics is what establish the relation between abstract meaning and context in which it is used, or rather…