LINC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Illocutionary Act, Pragmatics, Deixis
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Context plays a role in linguistic meaning: external and real world. Pragmatics action", concerned in use of language in real contexts, cannot study language use without prior concept of word meaning, or without looking at how particular words are used in contexts. Reference concerns in what an expression is about: frege distinguished between sense and reference (general meaning vs object which it refers to) Fregean distinction: 3 aspects of a words total semantic effect force (question or statement?) Tone/coloring (differences in register and connotation, ex. Reference is under the speakers control 2 conditions to complete act of reference: only one object must exist to which the utterance of expression applies, hearer must be given sufficient means to identify object. Codes are a speech style in which speaker and hearer have agreed to reassign conventional referents. Referential scope is very large considering how many things are meant literally/nonliterally, as metaphors, ironical statements, exaggerations.
