Linguistics
The Relation of Pragmatics to Semantics and Syntax
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2296057 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerry L Morgan (0000-0002-6014-9478, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-67 |
| Publication date | 1977-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.an.06.100177.000421 |
| OpenAlex | W2097583323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 12 |
The term is in wide and fashionable use today in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and adjoining fields. Its applications range from the narrow scope of the study of the meaning of deictic expressions to use as a catch-all category covering all aspects of communication that cannot be analyzed as literal meaning, including even matters of turn-taking and social interaction. Morris (28) used to describe those aspects of language which involve users, and contexts of use, of linguistic expressions. He opposed pragmatics to syntax (the study of linguistic form) and semantics (the study of the literal meaning of expressions). But Morris's discussion of pragmatics was programmatic and not very specific. Bar-Hillel (3) proposed more specifically that pragmatics be concerned with indexical expressions; that is, expressions whose meaning or reference cannot be determined without reference to context-the pronoun I and the adverbs here, now, and then, for example. Despite such discussions, the study of pragmatics in linguistics received little attention until strong interest in it was provoked in the early 1970s, when the interests of philosophers and linguists (especially, but not exclusively, those associated with generative semantics) converged on the topics of presupposition and conversational implicature (these terms will be explained below
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Toward a linguistic theory of speech acts
Indirect speech acts
How To Do Things With Words
Meaning and Truth in the Theory of Speech Acts
An examination of the performative analysis 1
Intention and Convention in Speech Acts
Reference and Definite Descriptions
Aspects of English Sentence Stress
Do Illocutionary Forces Exist
Accent Is Predictable (If You're a Mind-Reader)
Conversational Postulates Revisited
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |