The pragmatic aspects of the sentence

Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics which 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, and 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 of the speaker and listener, but also on the context of the utterance, any preexisting 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 apparentambiguity, since meaning relies on the manner, place, time etc. of an utterance.

Introduction………………………………………………………………….3
Chapter 1. Theoretical aspects of pragmatics……………………………….4
1.1. Semantic Values and Pragmatic Values…………………………………..4
1.2. The pragmatic aspect of the sentence……………………………………..9
Chapter 2. Pragmatics of the sentence……………………………………..13
2.1. Interpreting a sentence…………………………………………………..13
2.2. Gricean Conversational Maxims………………………………………...17
Conclusion………………………………………………………………….21
List of references……………...……………………………………………22