- Communicative Competence - Linguistic Anthropology - Moses
Illusion - Politeness Strategies - Pragmatic Competence - Speech
Act - Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) - What Is
Linguistics? Etymology:Coined in the 1930s by the philosopher
C.W. Morris; developed as a subfield of linguistics in the
1970s. - "What does pragmatics have to offer that cannot be
found in good old-fashioned linguistics? What do pragmatic
methods give us in the way of greater understanding of how the
human mind works, how humans communicate, how they manipulate
one another, and in general, how they use language? "The general
answer is: pragmatics is needed if we want a fuller, deeper, and
generally more reasonable account of human language behavior. "A
more practical answer would be: outside of pragmatics, no
understanding; sometimes, a pragmatic account is the only one
that makes sense, as in the following example, borrowed from
David Lodge's Paradise News: 'I just met the old Irishman and
his son, coming out of the toilet.'How do