Crash Course Linguistics

Pragmatics

We don’t always say exactly what we mean, and yet we’re still pretty good at understanding each other. It's because we use context and meaning to figure out what's going on. We cover the four main assumptions we make about context in language, also known as Grice’s Maxims, and different times of conversational styles.

Pragmatics

10m 7s

We don’t always say exactly what we mean, and yet we’re still pretty good at understanding each other. It's because we use context and meaning to figure out what's going on. We cover the four main assumptions we make about context in language, also known as Grice’s Maxims, and different times of conversational styles.

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