Pragmatics: Some Basic Principles and Procedures
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2000
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The importance of pragmatics to language studies is that it enables scholars and students to understand the principles and procedures guiding the interpretation of socio-cultural and contextual meanings of utterances. In this paper, we describe certain terms, principles and procedures of the pragmatics of language while exemplifying the discussion with some English utterances.
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Pragmatics, Pragmatic principles, Pragmatic procedures, Knowledge structures
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Adegbite, Wale (2000). Pragmatics: Some Basic Principles and Procedures. In Babajide, Adeyemi O. (Ed.) Studies in English Language. Ibadan: Enicrownfit.