Pragmatics | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:01:18 1 Etymology
00:01:51 2 Origins of the field
00:03:03 3 Areas of interest
00:04:36 4 Ambiguity
00:07:38 5 Referential uses of language
00:13:28 6 Non-referential uses of language
00:13:39 6.1 Silverstein's "pure" indexes
00:16:22 6.2 The performative
00:17:59 6.3 Jakobson's six functions of language
00:20:52 7 Related fields
00:23:53 8 Formalization
00:25:03 9 In literary theory
00:27:20 10 Significant works and concepts
00:28:10 11 See also



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Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk in interaction and other approaches to language behavior in philosophy, sociology, linguistics and anthropology. Unlike semantics, which examines meaning that is conventional or "coded" in a given language, pragmatics studies how the transmission of meaning depends not only on structural and linguistic knowledge (e.g., grammar, lexicon, etc.) of the speaker and listener, but also on the context of the utterance, any pre-existing knowledge about those involved, the inferred intent of the speaker, and other factors.  In this respect, pragmatics explains how language users are able to overcome apparent ambiguity, since meaning relies on the manner, place, time, etc. of an utterance.The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called pragmatic competence.