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    Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context. It examines the relationship between linguistic form and communicative function. Understanding context and discourse is crucial to interpreting meaning. Speech acts refer to the locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts that occur with language use. Conversational implicatures are inferences made about a speaker's intended meaning based on context. Politeness and face are important concepts, as people choose language to maintain their public self-image and avoid threatening others' self-image. However, politeness strategies vary across cultures and genders.

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    Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context. It examines the relationship between linguistic form and communicative function. Understanding context and discourse is crucial to interpreting meaning. Speech acts refer to the locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts that occur with language use. Conversational implicatures are inferences made about a speaker's intended meaning based on context. Politeness and face are important concepts, as people choose language to maintain their public self-image and avoid threatening others' self-image. However, politeness strategies vary across cultures and genders.

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    Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context. It examines the relationship between linguistic form and communicative function. Understanding context and discourse is crucial to interpreting meaning. Speech acts refer to the locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts that occur with language use. Conversational implicatures are inferences made about a speaker's intended meaning based on context. Politeness and face are important concepts, as people choose language to maintain their public self-image and avoid threatening others' self-image. However, politeness strategies vary across cultures and genders.

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    DISCOURSE AND

    PRAGMATICS

    By Group 3:
    1. Rizkynanda Setiawan
    2. Alifatul Syadiyah

    WHAT IS PRAGMATICS ?
    Pragmatic is the study of meaning in relation to
    the context in which a person is speaking or
    writing
    Relationship between linguistic form and
    communicative function is of central interest in
    the area of pragmatics

    LANGUAGE,CONTEXT AND
    DISCOURSE
    Language function in context is central to an
    understanding of the relationship between what
    is said and what is understood is spoken and
    written discourse
    The context of situation of what someone says
    is,therefore,crucial to understanding interpreting
    the meaning of what is being said.

    SPEECH ACT AND DISCOURSE

    Speech act is what Austin argued that he said


    there are three kind of act which occur with
    everything we say. These are the locutionary act,
    the illocutionary act, and the perlocutionary act.

    FLOUTING THE CO-OPERATIVE


    PRINCIPLE

    On some occasions speakers flout the co-operative


    principle and intend their hear to understand
    this ; that is ,they purposely do not observe the
    maxim, and intend their hearer to be aware of
    this.

    CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES
    AND DISCOURSE
    Conversational implicatures refers to the inference a
    hearer makes about a speakers intended meaning
    that arises from their use of the literal meaning of
    what the speaker said.
    Conventional and particularized conversational
    implicatures
    With conventional implicatures, no particular
    context is required in order to derive the implicature.
    Particularized conversational implicatures, are
    derived from a particular context, rather than from
    use of the words alone. The speaker assumes the
    hearer will search for the relevance of what they are
    saying and derive an intended meaning.

    CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES
    AND DISCOURSE
    Scalar implicatures
    These are derived when a person uses a word from
    a set of words that express some kind of scale of
    values.

    POLITENESS, FACE AND DISCOURSE


    Politeness and face are important for understanding
    why people choose to say things in a particular way
    in spoken and written discourse.
    There are several ways to think of politeness. These
    might involve ideas like being tactful, modest and
    nice to other people. In the study of linguistic
    politeness, the most relevant concept is 'face'.
    Face means the public self-image of a person. It refers
    to that emotional and social sense of self that
    everyone has and expects everyone else to recognize.
    Something that represents a threat to another
    person's self-image , is called a face-threatening act.

    POLITENESS, FACE AND DISCOURSE


    Choosing a politeness strategy
    We draw on a number of considerations when we
    decide on a choice of politeness strategy. They
    typically involve the relative status of the
    participants, based on social values tied to such
    things as age and power. We may consider how
    socially close or distant we are from our hearer.

    FACE AND POLITENESS ACROSS


    CULTURE
    It is important to point out the specific nature of
    face and politeness varies from society to society
    and from culture to culture.
    The ways in which people express politeness also
    differs across cultures.

    POLITENESS AND GENDER


    Politeness strategies have also been shown to vary
    according to gender.
    Holmes (1995) reveals that the relationship
    between sex, politeness and language is a
    complex one and that while research shows that,
    overall, women are more polite than men, it also
    depends on what we mean by polite as well as
    which women and men are being compared and
    what setting the interaction occurs in; that is, the
    particular local conditions in which the man or
    woman is speaking.

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