L. Austin How to do things with words. Locutionary Acts Saying something about something Illocutionary acts Doing something by saying something Perlocutionary Acts

Outline Introduction Pragmatics Principles underlying the implicature phenomenon Types of implicature Examples

A1 Husbands Wives Redefinition and adjustment of both husband's and wife's needs and values in contemporary British society. The effects of newly-emerging work patterns upon the roles of husbands and wives within the family

A 1 The Family In modern Britain post WW2, the amount of the diverse families has grown due to changes over time Nuclear family 3 types *Lone-parent family Cohabiting couple

Objectives In this chapter we will look at some general features of Britain and set the scene for the more detailed examination of particular aspects of life there which are dealt with in later chapters

I What is Pragmatics Pragmatics is the study of language usage from a functional perspective and is concerned with the principles that account for how meaning is communicated by the speaker (writer) and interpreted by the listener (reader) in a certain context

Some languages have different forms or you French‘ tu/vous”. German“ du sie for example). These may originally have indicated number(vous\and\Sie\) used for plural forms but now show different levels of formality with\tu and\a'\ being more familiar,“\vos” and\Sie” more polite

Language is a system of symbols ymbols are objects, events, speech sounds, written forms, gestures, which humans attach meaning Symbols operate in changing fields of social relationships symbols are multivocal --enables a wide range of

The reasonable person adapts himself to the world while the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt he world to himse!.” George bernard Shaw

PSyCholinguistics-a dead disciplne! term coined in 1954 [Osgood] aim: to describe the exact operation of the brain during the production or processing of language psychology PSycho