pragmtics.ppt

1. Lead-in…… Why do we need pragmatics since we have grammatical analysis? There are also a number of general motivations for the development of pragmatic theory. One of the most important of these is the possibility that pragmatics can effect a radical simplification of semantics. The hope is based on the fact that pragmatic principles of language usage can be shown systematically to “read in” to utterances more than they conventionally or literally mean. Another powerful and general motivation for the interest in pragmatics is the growing realization that there is a very substantial gap be