Pragmatics

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Deictic expressions
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language expressions whose meaning strictly depends on the context:
Personal deixis
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Expressions whose meaning strictly depends on the personal context of conversation.
Spatial deixis
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Expressions whose meaning strictly depends on the spatial context of conversation.
Temporal deixis
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Expressions whose meaning strictly depends on the temporal context of conversation.
Presupposition
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a set of assumptions or background knowledge that is necessarily connected to the utterance:
Implicature
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a statement which is suggested (implied) but not stated exactly by the speaker. The hearer must infer its meaning by means of (contextual) knowledge they have at their disposal.
CONSTATIVES
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Stating facts of the world
PERFORMATIVES
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Performing a certain action in the world
EXPLICIT PERFORMATIVES (DIRECT SPEECH ACTS
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Performing a certain action explicitly, directly
IMPLICIT PERFORMATIVES (INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS
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Performing a certain action implicitly, indirectly
Locutionary act
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the utterance of a sentence with a certain sense
Illocutionary act
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the act of informing, ordering, warning etc. by virtue of a conventional force associated with it (the intention of the Speaker)
Perlocutionary act
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the act of bringing about or achieving certain (extralinguistic) effect, such as convincing, persuading, deterring etc. (the effect of the utterance
Inferences
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Inferences are conclusions that listeners draw based on the information provided and the context. Inferences go beyond the literal meaning of the words to understand what the speaker really means or intends.
Pragmatics
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meaning of words, phrases and sentences

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