Two Approaches Of Pragmatics

Pragmatics is the area of language function that embraces the use of language in social contexts (knowing what to say, how to say it, and when to say it - and how to "be" with other people). Children with pragmatic difficulties have great trouble using language socially in ways that are appropriate or

pragmatics - knowledge that relates to how language is used appropriately within different social contexts.

Conversation is a ritual every person must encounter throughout their lives in order to function properly with one another in today’s society. However, every individual has a “different idea about what’s appropriate” when approaching someone in any sort of conversation; that is why we are referred to as individuals (Tannen 327). There are thousands of diverse languages to speak to one another with, in fact that means there are thousands of different ways to offend each other with our words. Within those languages there are several contrasting gestures that can offend any single person, such as the amount of times individuals apologize in one meeting, giving criticism too harshly, or thanking someone so often it does not seem genuine. In the article “What Do You Mean,” Deborah Tannen touches upon apologies, criticism, and thank yous in further detail to explain where individuals go wrong within conversation and how they can fix their actions. Individuals find it satisfying to please others by being polite because it is the ‘right’ thing to do, however like myself others need to stand up for themselves and get directly to the point now in order to avoid conflict later in life.

In this paper, I will inform of three concepts from the textbook Communication Matters, Second Edition by Kory Floyd that was most beneficial to my learning throughout the course of Speech 1700. The three concepts I selected to discuss of are affect displays, belief, and scripted speech. In addition, I will explain each concept that I selected by providing a necessary theoretical background and general examples. Moreover, I will discuss of each concepts and its benefits to my learning of communication. Furthermore, I will discuss of each concept 's importance in my daily communications and my application usage in personal and professional settings. Lastly, I will conclude of the overall experience learning of communications and the three concepts I selected that I found beneficial to my daily communication.

Pragmatics describes how a word or phrase is used in a social context. One branch of pragmatics is humor. Often, jokes cannot be translated due to the peculiarities and idiosyncrasies of the original language. However, by learning a language, one can learn how to appreciate that language’s humor. Knowing a language’s humor shows that the speaker understands the language.

Pragmatics is the process of saying more without using so many words. For example, a child needs to use the bathroom but they can’t say “ I need to go to the bathroom” instead they would say the words “Pee” or “

Regarding the situational context, it is observed that sender tries to influence the receiver about the decisions being made later. On

In other words, indirectness is a widely used conversational strategy, hence people reduce the unpleasant message contained in requests and other statement. In indirect speech acts the speaker communicates to the hearer more than he actually says by way of depending on their mutually shared background information either both linguistic and nonlinguistic together with the powers of rationality and inference on the part of the hearer. To be more specific, to explain the indirect speech acts can be say it is “a theory of speech acts certain general principles of cooperative conversation” (Searle, 1979, p. 31-32). As Thomas (1995) people use indirect strategies whenever they want to reach aims from their hearers, when speakers want to increase the force of the message communicated, or when want to make their speech more

After we have a conversation with someone, we judge the other person based on the conversation that was just had and we decide whether we had a positive impression or a negative impression. If we have a negative impression of someone we tend to jump to conclusions that the other person didn’t like you or that they were full of themselves or possibly shy. Tannen notes that “conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others” and that when you say something and it is misinterpreted by the other person it can be frustrating (Tannen, 2001).

For the argument analysis paper, I believe that I was successful at analyzing Baileys article, “Refusing Vaccination Put Others At Risk: A pragmatic argument for coercive vaccination” by using Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s Strategies, facts/truths and values. I believe that I effectively and correctly used the two strategies throughout the paper analyzing the many examples that Bailey used throughout his article. I am proud of this paper because I believe

A speech act is defined by George Yule as “an action such as ‘promising’ performed by a speaker with an utterance, either as a direct speech act or an indirect speech act” (Yule 298). Germans tend to be more direct with speech acts, and more explicit than English speakers when expressing disappointment or blame; they are less likely to imply a request and more likely to outright give a command or complaint (Grieve 193-194). Whereas English speakers are more likely to be indirect and keep opinions and emotions to themselves, focusing on being polite during a complaint rather than being direct, Grieve writes that Germans are more content-, goal-, and truth-oriented than English speakers (Grieve 193).

Pragmatics in more recent years has begun to take relevance in the study of language and

The contents of this class have helped me learn more about the verbal, and non-verbal communication among different cultures, ethnic groups and societies. We all practice communication some how, but I feel privileged of learning more details about the concepts of interpersonal communications after finishing the course. Each chapter of the book offers a very interesting, and educational instruction about social problems in relation to communication. I enjoyed reading about the roots of the different types of human behaviors. I consider the study of interpersonal communication as a very intellectual discipline that is essential in our daily lives.

In interpersonal communication there are many theories that are similar yet different in many ways. The theories can be combined to describe people and how those people interact and communicate with each other. Many of these theories help explain how people in society form impressions of others, how they maintain these impressions, why people interact with certain people in society, and how people will use these impressions that they have formed later on in life. These theories also help people to better understand themselves, to better understand interpersonal communication, and to better understand people in general. There are two theories in interpersonal communication that, despite their differences, can go hand in hand. The first is

In many parts of this world, former existing borders are removed and people move closer together. It has to be admitted that most of the time this happens due to economical reasons, and the phenomenon of mass media has to be mentioned in this context as well. Therefore it becomes even more important to be able to