Week 01
Week 01
CHAPTER 01 04 Goals
In this lesson, you will learn:
Definitions
Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
Regularity
The Pragmatics Wastebasket
OBJECTIVES 4 Goals
Definitions
PART 1
YULE’S DEFINITION 1
Cambridge Dictionary
UTTERANCES (FRIES)
Cambridge Dictionary
COMMUNICATED
Cambridge Dictionary
INTERPRETED
to decide what the intended meaning of something is
Cambridge Dictionary
NOTE
interpret (v)
→ be interpreted (v)
→ interpretation (n)
PARTICIPANTS
A B
1. speaker 1. listener
2. writer 2. reader
MEANING
The meaning of one thing is what it expresses or
represents.
1. flight has two different meanings:
a. a plane journey
b. the act of running away
Cambridge Dictionary
WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
TWO KINDS OF MEANING
It is hot. It is hot.
→ I want you to open → The weather is hot. (because it
the door or turn on the is an empty subject, it = weather)
fan.
YULE’S DEFINITION 2
Cambridge Dictionary
WHAT IS UNSAID
WHAT IS UNSAID
YULE’S DEFINITION 4
Cambridge Dictionary
WHY DISTANCE MATTERS?
PART 2
SYNTAX
Merriam Webster
SYNTAX
Cambridge Dictionary
SYNTAX
Wikipedia
EXAMPLES
PROBLEM
SEMANTICS
Cambridge Dictionary
ENTITY
Wikipedia
LITERAL
Dictionary of Untranslatables
PRAGMATICS
PART 3
REGULARITY 1
Collins Dictionary
PART 4
WHY A WASTEBASKET?
p q Value
true false false
false true false
false false false
true true true
PROBLEM