LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:7 July 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Pragmatics - The Foundation of Communication
A Review

Dr. Sweta Sinha

Abstract

Pragmatics is a very important aspect of language that helps in establishing the purpose of any communication. It accounts for the usage, the properties and the processes of language. Communication is not an isolated process. It occurs in continuum. It is a two-way channel between the speaker and the hearer with reversible roles and the complete comprehension of the utterance can be obtained only when the entire context is taken into consideration. The paper reviews the development of pragmatics as a separate branch of study focusing on its various aspects and elements. Speech acts which are the essence of any communication are an integral part of pragmatics.

Keywords: Pragmatics, Utterance, Speech Acts, Deixis, Context, Reference.

1. Introduction

Basically, pragmatics can be defined as the study of language use, or, in a more complicated phrasing, the study of linguistic phenomena from the point of view of their usage, properties and processes. Linguistics is traditionally divided into several constituent disciplines like Phonetics which identifies a continuous series of speech sounds; Phonology that studies the way in which speech sounds are systematized; Morphology which investigates ‘morphemes’ or word units; Syntax which studies sentence formation processes and Semantics that explores the meaning of linguistics.

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Sweta Sinha

Dr. Sweta Sinha, Ph.D. in Linguistics
Centre for Linguistics
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi- 110067
India
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