Pragmatics: a hybrid innovation
Leila Najeh
University of Sfax, Tunisia
Abstract
My original
intention is to prove that pragmatics is a ‘hybrid’ innovation. It grew out of
three distinct branches of knowledge:
rhetoric, semiotics and functional linguistics. My assumption draws on
three simple observations: (i) many rhetorical concepts, like topoi, inference
and argumentation, are pragmatically tackled, (ii) many works document a
palpable influence of Aristotelian rhetoric in pragmatic researches (Tyteca
&Perlman, 1992; Anscombre,
1995; Ducrot &Anscombre, 1997),and (iii) other works, always, put
pragmatics at the cross of disciplines (Eemeren et al, 1986).
The article
provides a panoramic survey of pragmatics. Its main issue is to contribute to
the understanding of the interface between pragmatics and surrounding
disciplines, mainly rhetoric, functional linguistics and semiotics.
Key words:
pragmatics, rhetoric, semiotics, functional linguistics, speech act theory.
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