ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Pragmatics
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Is any concrete community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another e. g. internet chat rooms, e- mail. Study o the relationship between language and society. Verbal repertoire the sum total of verbal varieties a particular individual has. Switch from one variety (or code) to another as situation demanded. Conversations and linguistic conventions of a group of people. (talk) e. g. storytelling, oratory, popular theater. Pragmatics is the study of the aspects of meaning and language use that are dependent on the speaker, the addressee and other features of the context of utterance. Ethnopragmatics study of the culturally and politically inflected rules o use that shape particular acts of speech communication among particular speakers and audience. A grammatically simplified form of a language with elements taken from local languages, used for communication between people not sharing a common language is used with different meanings in different contexts, which can generate confusion.
