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1524243865_71278.doc general principles of grammatical analisys problems to be discussed: 1. pragmatics. speech act theory 2. discourse analysis man is not well defined as "homo sapiens" ("man with wisdom"). for what do we mean by wisdom? it has not been proved so far that animals do not possess it. those of you who have pets can easily prove the contrary. most recently anthropologists have started defining human beings as "man the toolmaker". however, apes can also make primitive tools. what sets man apart from the rest of animal kingdom is his ability to speak: he is "can easily object by saying that animals can also speak homo loquens" - "man the speaking animal". and again, you, naturally, in their own way. but their sounds are meaningless, and there is no link between sound and meaning (or if there is, it is of a very primitive kind) and the link for …

le' refers to a definite piece of furniture. it may be not only an object but a process, state, quality, etc. this type of meaning is called referential meaning of a unit. it is semantics that studies the referential meaning of units. b) the relation between a unit and other units (inner relations between units). no unit can be used independently; it serves as an element in the system of other units. this kind of meaning is called syntactic. formal relation of units to one another is studied by syntactics (or syntax). c) the relation between a unit and a person who uses it. as we know too well, when we are saying something, we usually have some purpose in mind. we use the language as an instrument for our purpose (e.g.). one and the same word or sentence may acquire different meanings in communication. this type of meaning is …

n language analysis deals with the language 'in action'. naturally, in order to get a broad description of the language, all the three approaches must be combined. any human language has two main functions: the communicative function and the expressive or representative function - human language is the living form of thought. these two functions are closely interrelated as the expressive function of language is realized in the process of speech communication. the expressive function of language is performed by means of linguistic signs and that is why we say that language is a semiotic system. it means that linguistic signs are of semiotic nature: they are informative and meaningful. there are other examples of semiotic systems but all of them are no doubt much simpler. for instance, traffic lights use a system of colours to instruct drivers and people to go or to stop. some more examples: code morse, …

wo level units: a) the 'morpheme - the lowest meaningful unit (teach - teacher); b) the word - the main naming ('nominative) unit of language. the syntactical level has two level units as well: a) the word-group - the dependent syntactic unit; b) the sentence - the main communicative unit. the supersyntactical level has the text as its level unit. all structural levels are subject matters of different levels of linguistic analysis. at different levels of analysis we focus attention on different features of language. generally speaking, the larger the units we deal with, the closer we get to the actuality of people's experience of language. to sum it up, each level has its own system. therefore, language is regarded as a system of systems. the level units are built up in the same way and that is why the units of a lower level serve the building material for …

pragmatics. speech act theory. discourse analysis the term 'pragmatics' was first introduced by charles morris, a philosopher. he contrasts pragmatics with semantics and syntax. he claims that syntax is the study of the grammatical relations of linguistic units to one another and the grammatical structures of phrases and sentences that result from these grammatical relation, semantics is the study of the relation of linguistic units to the objects they denote, and pragmatics is the study of the relation of linguistic units to people who communicate. this view of pragmatics is too broad because according to it, pragmatics may have as its domain any human activity involving language, and this includes almost all human activities, from baseball to the stock market. we will proceed from the statement that linguistic pragmatics is the study of the ability of language users to pair sentences with the context in which they would be appropriate. …

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1524243865_71278.doc general principles of grammatical analisys problems to be discussed: 1. pragmatics. speech act theory 2. discourse analysis man is not well defined as "homo sapiens" ("man with wisdom"). for what do we mean by wisdom? it has not been proved so far that animals do not possess it. those of you who have pets can easily prove the contrary. most recently anthropologists have started defining human beings as "man the toolmaker". however, apes can also make primitive tools. what sets man apart from the rest of animal kingdom is his ability to speak: he is "can easily object by saying that animals can also speak homo loquens" - "man the speaking animal". and again, you, naturally, in their own …

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