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What is Understanding Semantics and Pragmatics about?
- Semantics is the study of meaning in language, focusing on literal meanings of sentences and words. Pragmatics is concerned with meaning in context, how utterances are interpreted based on context. - There are three stages to interpreting utterances: the literal semantic meaning, the explicature or basic interpretation using context, and implicature which infers additional implied meanings. - Pragmatics allows more to be communicated with less, as context helps disambiguate meanings and infer addition
- Author
- Marya Midw
- Language
- EN