The relationship between pragmatics and discourse analysis is such that makes it difficult to really say where one ends and…
Sociolinguistics is defined as the study of language in relation to society while pragmatics is concerned with the study of…
Linguistics is formally defined as the scientific study of language and its subfields, i.e. phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics are…
In this article, we shall be considering the interface of pragmatics and other linguistic disciplines; in other words we shall…
In this article we shall be examining some other ways speakers and writers encode meaning using some grammatical elements in…
Generally pragmatic theories attempt to explain how utterances convey meaning in context, explain how meaning is decoded from utterances in…
INTRODCTION In this article, we shall be considering some more concepts associated with Grice’s theory of implicature and how they…
Austin (1962) postulates that when an individual makes an utterance, he performs (i) the locutionary act, which is the act that…
A speech event is what is going on, including both linguistic and non-linguistic activity that make up the context. Every…
You will recall that we identified the role of the context in determining the meaning of indexical references such as…