Matakuliah
Tahun
: G1042/Pragmatics
: 2006
Definisi dan latar belakang
Pertemuan 1
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Learning Outcomes
• Mahasiswa dapat menjelaskan Definisi
pragmatics, kegunaan dan manfaatnya
(C2)
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Materi Outline
• Definisi pragmatics
• Pragmatics dan ilmu linguistik lainnya
• Manfaat pragmatics
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1. Definition (1)
• Pragmatics :
– The study of
• the use of language in communication,
• particularly the relationship between:
– sentences and
– the contexts and situations in which they are used
Richards, 1992. Dictionary of
language teaching and linguistics
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1. Definition (2)
• Pragmatics includes the study of;
– How the interpretation and the use of
UTTERANCE depends on the knowledge of
the real world.
– How speakers used and understand SPEECH
ACTS
– How the structure of sentences is influenced
by the relationship between the speaker and
the hearer
Richards, 1992. Dictionary of
language teaching and linguistics
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1. Definition (3)
• Pragmatics is the study of
– Speaker meaning
– Contextual meaning
– How more gets communicated than is said
– The study of the expression of relative
distance
Yule, 1995
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2. Pragmatics and other linguistics fields (1)
• Syntax :
– The relationship between linguistics units
(Yule, 1996)
• Semantics
– The relationship between linguistic forms and
entities in the world. (Yule, 1996)
– Meaning without reference to the users and
communicative functions of sentences
(Richards,1992)
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2. Pragmatics and other linguistics fields (2)
• The use of studying pragmatics to
understand and to be able to talk about:
– People’s intended meaning,
– People’s assumptions,
– People’s purposes or goals
– The kinds of actions that they are performing
when they speak (Yule, 1992)
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Conclusion
• Pragmatics is the study of meaning in
context or in use
• Pragmatics is different from the other
linguistics fields but it becomes ‘the
basket’
• Pragmatics is very useful in communicatin
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