THEORETICAL BASES OF THE STUDY PRAGMATICS

Abstract

Pragmatics is the study of how communicative messages, context, speaker intent, and recipient understanding all interact in a certain situation. When a person communicates with someone else, that person’s message will have both a denotative meaning (what the words mean through strict dictionary interpretation) and a connotative meaning (how the words could be interpreted through the details and context of a situation). In order to study a message from a pragmatic standpoint, there are several accepted theories used for analyzing the pragmatics of a given utterance.