Pragmatics-Bhiksu University- Second Year Students (Internal)

·        Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics. 

·        Beyond sentence level.

·        Intended meaning/speaker meaning

·        Linguistic meaning

·        Ravi is a nice boy. (Linguistic meaning)

·        Ravi is a nice boy. (Intended meaning/speaker meaning) Ravi is not a nice boy. You know with your own experience he is bad.

"You have a green light.”

How is the canteen? It is excellent.”

Linguistic Meaning

It is a very good canteen. The servants are very kind and helpful. It is very clean. Food is fresh and delicious.

Intended meaning/speaker meaning

Opposite of the above. It is very bad canteen. It is not clean. The servants are very bad. Food is not tasty.