A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Indirect Speech, Filter Bubble, Alternative Facts
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Pragmatics studies the choices available to users when they speak or write, and the factors which govern their selection, such as the intention they have in mind or the effect they wish to convey. Illocutionary act: the intention, force of saying something. Locutionary act: actual wording, saying something, using words. Perlocutionary act: effect, what is achieved by saying something. > one locution can have several possible illocutions and perlocution. Historical pragmatics focuses on language use in past contexts and examines how meaning is made. Is an empirical branch of linguistics study, which focus on authentic language use in the past. The most prominent problem for historical pragmatics concerns the availability of historical natural language data. Data from two sources: genuinely written data, monologic (e. g. poems, dialogic (e. g. letters, written representations of spoken language, retrospective (e. g. court reports, fictional (e. g. drama, prospective (e. g. language teaching books)
