Functional Pragmatic Model Presented: Fernanda Munoz

What is pragmatics? George Yule Pragmatic is the study of speaker meaning. Is concern with the study of meaning as communicated by speaker (or writer) and interpreted by listener (or reader)

What is pragmatics? George Yule Is the study of contextual meaning Involves the interpretation of what people mean in a particular context and how the context influences what is said. Is the study of how more gets communicated that is said. Explores how listeners inferences about what is said in order to arrive at an interpretation of the speaker’s intended meaning.

What is pragmatics? George Yule Is the study of the expression of relative distance On the assumption of how close or distant a listener is, speakers determine how much need to be said.

Pragmatics can be defined as the study of language use, or, to employ a somewhat more complicated phrasing, the study of linguistic fenomena from the point of view of their usage properties and processes.

Micropagmatic Macropagmatic Deals with context, implicature, reference, pragmatic principles, speech acts, and conversation analysis Range of topics are only part of a country such as literary pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics, and the social of pragmatics.

Pragmatics Competence Making meaning is a dynamic process of negotiation involving both speaker and hearer. (Kasper, 1997). Definding this negotiation of meaning more specifically as it relates to second language acquisition as communicative action in its sociocultural context.

Pragmatics Competence Grammatical Competence: knowledge of vocabulary, morphology, syntax and phonology. Communicative Competence: Grammatical competence Sociolinguistic competence Discourse competence Strategic competence

Pragmatics Competence Kasper (1997) Pragmalinguistic The resources for conveying communicative acts and relational or interpersonal relations. Resources could include strategies such as directness and indirectness, as well as routines and linguistic forms that can intensify or soften communicative acts Sociopragmatic Involves the social perceptions underlying participants interpretation and performance of communicative action and includes variables such as gender, social distance and intimacy of relations.

Bibliography https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ924074.pdfhttps://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ924074.pdf Yule, George. Pragmatic. Oxford University 1996. Jucker, Andreas H. Pragmatics in the history of linguistic thought. 2012. University of Zurich Main Library