Place of Pragmatics in EFL Classroom

Authors

  • Ali Akbar Khansir Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
  • Farhad Pakdel Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5782/2223-2621.2021.24.1.66

Keywords:

Pragmatics, discourse and text, language teaching, English language, English language teaching

Abstract

This article's main aim was to discuss the place of Pragmatics in EFL classrooms. Pragmatics is one of the branches of linguistics concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker and interpreted by a listener. Pragmatics has relatively recently become the focuses of attention in language studies. On the other hand, it is important to remember that pragmatics components have been used in language teaching contexts in recent years, syllabus design by language teachers worldwide. Many research works have been done by many language researchers in different aspects of pragmatics competence. Language teachers use pragmatics as a functional approach in the language classroom. However, pragmatics follows the general principles for men when they communicate with others. Pragmatics study sentences not in isolation but regarding contexts of situations, and it is defined as the interaction between a sequence of language and the real-world situation in which it is used.

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2023-04-17

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Vol. 24 No. 1 (2021): Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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