Semantics and Pragmatics

  1. Pragmatic Theory
    1. Context and Contextual Factors
      1. Types of Context
        1. Physical Context
          1. Linguistic Context
            1. Social Context
              1. Cultural Context
                1. Epistemic Context
                2. Context Dependence
                  1. Contextual Parameters
                    1. Dynamic Context
                    2. Deixis and Indexicality
                      1. Deictic Phenomena
                        1. Person Deixis
                          1. Spatial Deixis
                            1. Temporal Deixis
                              1. Discourse Deixis
                                1. Social Deixis
                                2. Deictic Expressions
                                  1. Pronouns
                                    1. Demonstratives
                                      1. Adverbs of Time and Place
                                        1. Tense as Deixis
                                        2. Deictic Center and Origo
                                          1. Shifting Deictic Centers
                                            1. Perspective and Point of View
                                            2. Indexicality
                                              1. Pure Indexicals
                                                1. True Demonstratives
                                                  1. Automatic vs. Intentional Indexicals
                                                2. Speech Act Theory
                                                  1. Austin's Theory
                                                    1. Performative vs. Constative Utterances
                                                      1. Explicit vs. Implicit Performatives
                                                        1. Felicity Conditions
                                                          1. Speech Act Failures
                                                          2. Searle's Refinements
                                                            1. Locutionary Acts
                                                              1. Illocutionary Acts
                                                                1. Perlocutionary Acts
                                                                  1. Constitutive vs. Regulative Rules
                                                                  2. Classification of Speech Acts
                                                                    1. Assertives
                                                                      1. Directives
                                                                        1. Commissives
                                                                          1. Expressives
                                                                            1. Declarations
                                                                            2. Direct vs. Indirect Speech Acts
                                                                              1. Literal vs. Non-Literal Acts
                                                                                1. Conventionalized Indirect Acts
                                                                                  1. Recognition of Indirect Acts

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