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Pragmatic approach to discourse analysis - Coggle Diagram
Pragmatic approach to discourse analysis
Some basic concepts
Reference
Reference is the relationship which holds between words and things
Entailment
A distinction to be made between the reference of a word, which is the object designated, and the sense of a word.
Presupposition
Entailment as a concept from formal logic may be defined this way: When a proposition X is true, a proposition Y must therefore be true, then proposition X entails proposition Y.
Inferencing
Presupposition is the assumption the speaker makes about what the hearer is likely to accept without challenge
Implicatures
Process of reaching a conclusion based on facts or evidence
Implicatures is used by G Ice to account for what a speaker can imply, suggest, or mear as a distinct from what the speaker literally says
Bases for inferencing
The assumption
Background knowledge
Conceptual meaning of
utterance
Informal reasoning
The co-operative principle
Cooperative Principle and its maxims
Quantity
Relation
Manner
Quality
Conversational implicature