I'm doing research about deixis/deictic and its meanings in pragmatic. I didn't find any journals, books or ppt about pragmatic meanings in deixis, most of it is explained in semantic way, not pragmatic. Are pragmatic meanings in deixis same like speech act classifications? Or we can use implicature theories to determine those pragmatics meanings?
How to determine pragmatic meaning in this dialogue example?
Mother: What do you want for Christmas?
Daughter: I want a violin!
Father: Didn't you want a doll? You said that one week ago.
Daughter: Now I want violin, papa!
If the deixis of that dialogue is you, does that pragmatic meaning is asking the daughter what she wants for Christmas? Or it is semantic means?
Thank you in advance.
Anna Rosa Pragmatic meanings in deixis/deictic studies refer to the contextual and situational usage of deictic expressions in natural language, such as pronouns, demonstratives, and temporal and spatial adverbs. The pragmatic meaning of a deictic expression incorporates the speaker's intention, the audience's perspective, and the circumstances in which the statement is employed in addition to its semantic meaning.
Although they can overlap, pragmatic meanings in deixis/deictic can differ from speech act categories. Grice's theory of conversational implicature, for example, may be utilized to discern pragmatic meanings in deixis/deictic since it helps to explain the implicit meanings transmitted by a speaker through the usage of deictic phrases.
To establish the pragmatic meaning in the dialogue sample you provided, analyze the context and setting of the conversation, as well as the relationship between the speakers and the speaker's goals. Based on the context and the conversation between the mother and father, the deictic term "you" relates to the daughter, and the pragmatic meaning might be understood as asking the daughter what she wants for Christmas. More information about the context and scenario, on the other hand, is required to offer a more full examination of the pragmatic meaning in this example.
Dear Anna Rosa ,
Pragmatics which has a simply meaning “pointing” via language or asserting something via language. Any linguistics form used to accomplish this pointing is called a deictic expression.
https://uhn.ac.id/files/akademik_files/1712070152_2014_The%20Episteme%20Journal%20of%20Linguistics%20and%20Literature%20Vol%201%20No%201_5-An%20Analysis%20Of%20Deixis%20Used%20In%20John.pdf
Regards,
Shafagat
Pragmatic meanings in deixis/deictic study refer to the use of linguistic expressions to point to entities or events in the context of the speech situation. Deictic expressions, such as personal pronouns ("I", "you", "he", etc.), demonstratives ("this", "that", "these", "those"), and adverbs of time and place ("here", "there", "now", "then"), are used to refer to entities and events relative to the speaker, the addressee, and the time and place of the speech situation. The study of deixis is concerned with how these expressions are used to convey not only reference but also other pragmatic meanings such as speaker's attitude, perspective, and intention.
Qamar Ul Islam Thank you so much for the explanation, now I have a better understanding of determining the pragmatic meaning of deixis/deictic. May I know where you got the references about pragmatic meanings? I'd really appreciate it if you could give me these references in either journal articles, ebooks or powerpoint slides.
Shafagat Mahmudova Thank you so much for the journals. Now I have a general understanding of deixis/deictic. Can you explain in more detail, how to determine the pragmatic meanings in one of the examples found in your journal below?
1. Nathanael answered and said to him, “Rabbi, you are the son of God! You are the king of Israel “.(John chapter 1, Paragraph 49)
From the context, does this mean he wants to 'praise the Lord' or 'express his happiness'?
Anna Rosa There are several resources accessible to learn more about pragmatic meanings in particular. Some probable sources for pragmatic meaning references include:
Journals include Linguistics and Philosophy, Pragmatics and Society, Pragmatics and Cognition, and others.
Works include Stephen C. Levinson's "Pragmatics," Jenny A. Thomas' "Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics," and "The Handbook of Pragmatics," edited by Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward, among others.
Powerpoint slides: Several colleges make their course materials available to the public on their websites. To discover examples, try searching for "pragmatics course slides" or "pragmatics lecture slides".
Of course, these are just a few examples; there are several additional sites that may be beneficial. It is critical to ensure that the sources are reliable.
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