Resume Kelompok 1&2 Linguistic

  What is Pragmatics? Pragmatics is the study of how context affects meaning, such as how sentences are interpreted in certain situations (or the interpretation of linguistic meaning in context). Linguistic context is discourse that precedes a sentence to be interpreted and situational context is knowledge about the world. In the following sentences, the kids have eaten already and surprisingly, they are hungry, the linguistic context helps to interpret the second sentence depending on what the first sentence says. The situational context helps to interpret the second sentence because it is common knowledge that humans are not usually hungry after eating.     What is Sociolinguistics? Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society’s effect on language. It differs from sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of lan...

  What is Semantic?             Semantic theory is the study of the linguistic aspects of the meaning of expressions. It is not always easy to distinguish semantic properties – the linguistics aspects of meaning – from general background knowledge. What is required to understand a sentence like (1), for example, will be a tiny fraction of what most English speakers actually know about witches and princes and charms. The sentence can be understood by people who believe there are witches and by people who do not. That is, understanding this sentence does not require a knowledge of what things, if any, the noun witch refers to, or denotes, nor does it require that we know whether it is true or not. Understanding a sentence does, however, require that we recognize some more basic things, such as certain relations between this sentence and others.               Se...