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Chapter 1 Cognitive Pragmatics: An Overview Presented by:Linda Introduction An overview of Pragmatics From Philosophy of Language to Cognitive Science The Central Issues of Cognitive Pragamtics The Approaches to Cognitive Pragmatics The Relationship between Cognitive Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics 1.Introduction In this chapter we will briefly highlight a range of closely related, central cognitive pragmatics issues and approaches, including the philosophical origins of the term pragmatics, the main contributions of cognitive pragmatics, the approaches to cognitive pragmatics , the relationship between cognitive pragmatics and cognitive linguistics and the developing trends of cognitive pragmatics. The main purpose of this project is to provide a framework of how people understand utterances from a cognitive perspective 2. An Overview of Pragmatics 2.1The Origins of the Term “Pragmatics” References to pragmatics are found in philosophy since Charles Morris’ Foundations of the Theory of Signs in which pragmatics is defined as the study of the relations between signs and their interpreters. Morris is famous for his trichotomy syntax, semantics and pragmatics. After Morris’s version of trichotomy, the German philosopher and logician Rudolf Carnap in his book Introduction to Semantics reformulated the trichotomy as follows: If in an investigation explicit reference is made to the speaker or the user of the language, then we assign it (the investigation )to the field of pragmatics. If we abstract from the user of the language and analyze only the expressions and their designation, we are in the field of semantics. And ,finally ,if we abstract from the designation also and analyze only the relations between the expressions , we are in syntax. 2.2Defination of Pragmatics Pragmatics is the study of all those aspects of meaning not captured in a semantic theory.(Levinson) Or as Gazdar has put it, assuming that semantics is limitied to the statement of truth condit