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Lecture 10 Pragmatics (1) Teaching focus The historical development of pragmatics The scope of pragmatics The differences between pragmatics and semantics The notion of context Sentence meaning vs. utterance meaning Speech act theory Austin’s model of speech acts Searle’s classification of speech acts The origin and the development of pragmatics Pragmatics is a young science. G.Leech remarked in 1983: “fifteen years ago, pragmatics was mentioned by linguists rarely, if at all.” Pragmatics originates from philosophy and logic and it was first mentioned b