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Date Posted: 08:22:06 08/28/07 Tue
Author: Érika
Subject: Re: TEXT 4 - DA and Grammar (McCarthy)
In reply to: Kátia 's message, "TEXT 4 - DA and Grammar (McCarthy)" on 10:41:56 08/24/07 Fri

Well, Camila, according to the Longman dictionary, pragmatics is "the study of how words and phrases are used with special meanings in particular situations"; so as far as I understood, pragmatics seems more closely related to grammatical choice, since certain words may be chosen instead of others in specific contexts or circumstances. There is a strong connection between discourse organization, pragmatics and grammatical choice, once your discourse is going to be organized based on the words you choose and, consequently, according to the function you're willing to perform. I found this statement very interesting: "many unanswered grammatical questions can be resolved at the discourse level"; it means that, according to elements such as previous context, it may be possible to identify right or wrong grammar choices, which would hardly ever appear in a grammar book - they belong to the field of pragmatics and discourse organization.

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