THE PRINCIPLE FEATURES OF ENGLISH PRAGMATICS
Keywords:
Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, and Semiotics, Brief Overview of Pragmatics.Abstract
This article discusses the principle features of English Pragmatics, differences between and the problem of pragmatics, semantics, syntax and semiotics. Grammatical, lexical, lexio-grammatical word meaning and the semantic structure of word meaning. The concept of pragmatic information refers to information which is in some sense meaningful for a system, the study of the use of natural language in communication; more generally, the study of the relations between languages and their users.
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