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    The modern usage of the term pragmatics is attributable to the philosopher Charles Morris. Pragmatics should be concerned with principle of language used and there is nothing to be said about the description of linguistic structure. There are 7 elements of the communicational content of an utterance, those are: 1. Truth condition or entailments 2. Conventional implicature 3. Presupposition 4. Felicity condition 5. Conversational implicature-particularized 6. Inferences based on conversational structure 7.

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    The modern usage of the term pragmatics is attributable to the philosopher Charles Morris. Pragmatics should be concerned with principle of language used and there is nothing to be said about the description of linguistic structure. There are 7 elements of the communicational content of an utterance, those are: 1. Truth condition or entailments 2. Conventional implicature 3. Presupposition 4. Felicity condition 5. Conversational implicature-particularized 6. Inferences based on conversational structure 7.

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    Putu Esha Dirtaiswara Kurniawan

    070 130 5097


    Summary of Scope of Pragmatics

    1.1 The Origin and Historical Vagaries of the Term Pragmatics


    The modern usage of the term pragmatics is attributable to the
    philosopher Charles Morris (1983), whom was concern to outline, the
    general shape of signs, or semiotics. Within semiotics, Morris distinguished
    three distinct branches of inquiry: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics.
    Syntax is the formal relation of signs to the objects to which the signs are
    applicable. Pragmatics id the study of the relation of signs to interpreters
    (1938:6)

    • Each branch of semiotic, one could make the distinction between


    pure studies, concern with the relevant of metalanguage and
    descriptive studies, which applied the metalanguage to the
    description if specific signs and their usages.
    • The philosopher and logician, Champ, also very influential, he
    adopted the following person of the trichotomy. Unfortunately
    Carnap usage, the term of pragmatic, was confused by the adoption
    of Morris’s distinction between pure and descriptive studies.
    There are 7 elements of the communicational content of an utterance,
    those are:
    1. Truth condition or entailments
    2. Conventional implicature
    3. Presupposition
    4. Felicity condition
    5. Conversational implicature-generalized
    6. Conversational implicature-particularized
    7. Inferences based on conversational structure

    1.2 Defining Pragmatics


    Pragmatics is one of those words (societal and cognitive are others)
    give the impression that something quite specific and technical is being
    talked about when often in fact it has no clear meaning.
    Pragmatics should be concerned with principle of language used
    and there is nothing to do with the description of linguistic structure.
    To invoke Chomsky’s distinction between competence and
    performance pragmatics is concerned solely with performance principle of
    language used.
    According to Grice (1957), he distinguished between natural
    meaning and non-natural meaning. So it is related to the semantics
    (natural meaning) and pragmatics (non-natural meaning). Grice explains
    how there can be interesting discrepancies between speaker – meaning
    and sentence – meaning.
    Lyons (1977) advocates distinctions between text-sentences and
    system-sentences, sentences-types and sentence-tokens, utterance types
    and utterance-tokens. In the cases where sentence-meaning exhausts
    utterance-meaning, the same content would be assigned both to
    semantics and pragmatics.

    1.3 Current Interest in Pragmatics


    There are a number of convergent reasons for the growth of interest
    in pragmatics in recent years. Some of these are essentially historical: the
    interest developed in part as or antidote to Chomsky’s treatment of
    language as an abstract device, or mental ability, dissociable from the
    uses, users and functions of language.

    1.4 Computing Context: An Example


    Abstract discussions about the scope of pragmatics like those we
    have reviewed above, may well leave the reader with little feeling for the
    nature of pragmatic phenomena.
    There are no doubt many other [pragmatic inferences that can be
    wrung from an exchange as short and insignificant as this. But this will
    serve to indicate the general nature of the phenomena that pragmatic is
    concern with.

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