Portal:Pragmatics

Pragmatics This portal presents the most central topics in the study of language use.

Fundamental notions communication -- context -- organon model -- origo Conversational pragmatics conversational maxim -- cooperative principle -- floating of maxims -- implicature -- maxim of manner -- maxim of quality -- maxim of quantity -- maxim of relevance Discourse pragmatics background -- comment -- focus -- presupposition -- topic Speech act theory assertive -- commissive -- constative -- direct speech act -- felicity condition -- illocutionary act -- illocutionary force -- imperative -- indirect speech act -- locutionary act -- performative -- perlocutionary act -- speech act

Deixis local deixis -- social deixis -- temporal deixis Politeness face -- face-threatening act Irony use-mention distinction -- pretense Associations Journals Journal of Pragmatics Semantics and Pragmatics Book series Mouton Series in Pragmatics Other ressources Online-Wörterbuch zur Semantik und Pragmatik

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