LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Deixis, Pro-Form, Headache

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Waste basket of linguistics: whatever could not be explained by the core areas of linguistics (syntax, semantics, etc. ) was delegated to pragmatics . It was only about 50 years ago that people discovered this linguistic waste was perhaps the most interesting part of linguistics. Flower or flour: good or bad husband, unlikely that he is romantic/respectful (??) if his rst thought is about our instead of. > the study of language-use in social context. Pragmatic knowledge: speaker"s and addressee"s background attitudes and beliefs (are they serious or not, how much do they want to reveal, etc. ) Their knowledge of the context in which the communication is taking place. They knowledge of the functions of language (how to persuade, how to ask, how to apologize) The eighth-graders will be presenting shakespeare"s hamlet in the church basement friday at 7 pm. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy: hamlet is a tragedy so people can watch this tragedy being performed.