Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Nogat, Evidentiality, Tantrum
10 Aug 2016
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Pragmatics: concerned with words as they are defined in a system of signs, approximating to a dictionary definition (kramsch ch. The definition of signs in relation to each other. Pragmatics: concerned with words in use (kramsch ch. 3: the focus is on context of. The relation between speaker and audience: we will be concerned with. The ways in which language is used to get things done. We will pay special attention to the referential use of language. How certain features of language use affect relations between speakers: linguistic anthropology talks context very seriously. It is possible to refer to something in language that is true independently of the speaker"s position: There is no here/there or now/then in either statement: we will not be concerned with such statements here, performatives are statements that directly change the reality they refer to. The court finds you guilty of public mischief .
