Pragmatics

Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics that investigates how speakers and listeners interpret and produce utterances in relation to their communicative context, social conventions, and communicative intent.

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Parents

LinguisticsSpeech-language PathologyWorld Languages

Children

Anaphora ResolutionClinical PragmaticsContextual MeaningConversation AnalysisConversational MaximsCross-cultural PragmaticsDeixisDiscourse MarkersExperimental PragmaticsInformation Structure

Publications

22.3K

Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis

Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke · Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health · 2019 · 17.3K citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Communities Of Practice +6

Speaking: from intention to articulation

Choice Reviews Online · 1989 · 5K citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Psychology +13

Opening up Closings

Emanuel A. Schegloff, Harvey Sacks · Semiotica · 1973 · 4.3K citations

Language Studies, Communication, Linguistics +12

Speaking. From Intention to Articulation

David Caplan · Trends in Neurosciences · 1990 · 4.1K citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Pragmatics +7

Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.

William P. Alston, John R. Searle · The Philosophical Quarterly · 1970 · 3.9K citations

Humanities, Linguistics, Philosophy +14

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Raymond W. Gibbs
University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
54 publications · 6.4K citations
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Michael Haugh
Griffith University, Australia
41 publications · 3.9K citations
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Michael K. Tanenhaus
University of Rochester, United States
32 publications · 4.4K citations
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Julia Hirschberg
Columbia University, United States
38 publications · 4.3K citations
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Martin J. Pickering
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
28 publications · 2.2K citations
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Journal of Pragmatics
1.3K publications · 107.4K citations
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Language
430 publications · 84K citations
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Lingua
407 publications · 31.5K citations
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Linguistic Inquiry
240 publications · 29.5K citations
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Journal of Memory and Language
172 publications · 25.9K citations
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See also Pragmatics
Key Phenomena	Deixis Speech Acts Figurative Language Conversational Maxims Implied Meaning
Core Theories	Politeness Theory Speech Act Theory Deixis Pragmatic Implicature Hymes' Speaking Model
Social Context	Politeness Strategies Pragmatic Competence Pragmatic Instruction Social Distance
Analytic Methods	Discourse Analysis Psycholinguistics Computational Linguistics Corpus Linguistics Politeness Theory Content Analysis Text Mining Semantic Parsing Part-of-speech Tagging Sentiment Analysis Annotation Computational Modeling Tokenization Lemmatization
Applied Areas	Applied Linguistics Psychology Second Language Acquisition Intercultural Communication Natural Language Processing Computer-mediated Communication Foreign Language Pedagogy