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Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics: Sorting out the Muddle
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Swan, Michael – TESL-EJ, 2007
The term "pragmatics" is commonly used in two quite different senses. In linguistic discourse, "pragmatics" refers to the strategies (exploitation of shared knowledge, assumptions about communicative intent, etc.), by which language users relate the dictionary/grammar meaning of utterances to their communicative value in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction