Main Approaches to Pragmatics

Abstract

Within linguistics, the nature of a language exists in both grammar (the abstract formal system of language) and pragmatics (the principles of language use), which are complementary domains. Pragmatics is the interaction between them. In the communication, the process of meaning is a joint accomplishment between speaker and hearer, and that is the interaction between them. Utterance is not only sense but also force (Austin, 1962). The process of performing speech acts was explained by principle and Maxim and of generating implicature by means of 'informal reasoning'. Searle established a set of rule for speech act, and Leech has a complementarist view of pragmatics in a communication system.