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    There are three stages in the development of pragmatics. The first stage occurred in the 1930s when pragmatics was first used as a branch of semiotics. In the second stage from 1950-1960, philosophers like Austin, Searle, and Grice established theories of speech acts and implicature. The third stage began in 1977 with the first journal of pragmatics and 1983 books that established pragmatics as an independent discipline, leading to the International Pragmatics Association in 1988. There are two schools of pragmatics, the British/American school focusing on grammar and structure, and the European school taking a wider focus on cultural and social aspects of communication.

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    There are three stages in the development of pragmatics. The first stage occurred in the 1930s when pragmatics was first used as a branch of semiotics. In the second stage from 1950-1960, philosophers like Austin, Searle, and Grice established theories of speech acts and implicature. The third stage began in 1977 with the first journal of pragmatics and 1983 books that established pragmatics as an independent discipline, leading to the International Pragmatics Association in 1988. There are two schools of pragmatics, the British/American school focusing on grammar and structure, and the European school taking a wider focus on cultural and social aspects of communication.

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    There are three stages in the development of pragmatics. The first stage occurred in the 1930s when pragmatics was first used as a branch of semiotics. In the second stage from 1950-1960, philosophers like Austin, Searle, and Grice established theories of speech acts and implicature. The third stage began in 1977 with the first journal of pragmatics and 1983 books that established pragmatics as an independent discipline, leading to the International Pragmatics Association in 1988. There are two schools of pragmatics, the British/American school focusing on grammar and structure, and the European school taking a wider focus on cultural and social aspects of communication.

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    3 stages of development

    There are three stages in the development of


    pragmatics.
    The 1st stage occurred in 1930s. The term Pragmatics
    was used at a the 1st time. It was the branch of
    Semiology/semiotics= the study of signs.
    Pragmatics
    In 1938, Carnap said that pragmatics should focus on
    relationship between users, words and reference
    relationship.
    In 1940, Charles Morris divided semiology into 3 parts:
    syntactics/syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
    Then, the 2nd stage: From 1950 to 1960: 3 philosophers:
    Austin, Searle and Paul Grice established their theory
    of Speech act and implicature theory.
    The 3rd Stage: in 1977, Jacob L. Mey published the 1st
    Journal of Pragmatics in Holland.
    In 1983, Levinson wrote his book Pragmatics whereas
    Geoffrey Leech wrote his Principle of pragmatics.
    In 1988,the set up of International Pragmatics
    Association (IPrA). This was a year which noted as a
    year when pragmatics turned into an independent
    discipline.
    Schools of Pragmatics
    There are two schools of pragmatics: Br. And
    Am.school and European School.
    British and American school had a focus on sentence
    structure and grammar: deictic expression,
    conversational implicature, presupposition, speech and
    conversational structure. It was called : Micro-
    pragmatics.
    The European school had a wider focus. It focused on
    macro-pragmatics scope like conversational analysis,
    cultural anthropology, social linguistics and
    psycholinguistics in the process of communication.

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