DEFINITIONS OF PRAGMATICS

*1st Definition by [Omark 1981: 256]:

“The speaker has some intent to communicate and he/she attempts to communicate, the listener has some understanding of this intent and understands what is communicated more or less. So a message of some sort conveyed from individual to another, it can be a command, instruction or a description.”

*2nd Definition by [Bates 1975: 16]:

“Pragmatics is not simply another kind of sign relation equivalent to syntax and semantics. Pragmatics is the study of linguistics indices and indices can be interpreted only when they are used. One cannot describe the meaning of indices, one can only describe rules for relating them to a context in which the meaning can be found.”

*3rd Definition by [Searle 1975; 1979: n.pag.]:

“The speaker has intent in making a statement. A hearer perceives some intent in what the speaker says. The spoken words and the way they are said carry this intentionality from one person to the other.”