PERTEMUAN 8 PRAGMATIK

Pragmatics will play a role in helping learners understand the meaning of a speech or language use so that the meaning of the speech can be understood properly. In pragmatics we will study the contextual meaning of a speech. According to Nozz and Llamzon (1986) there are at least four main elements that must always be considered in pragmatic studies such as roles, setting, topics, and the medium used in communicating. Pragmatics is very important to learn. The importance of pragmatics in communicating is to avoid mistakes in communication because pragmatics is closely related to context.

The scope of pragmatics consists of deixis, reference dan inference, presupposition, speech act, and implicature. Then in the second language pragmatic learning there is inter-language pragmatics. Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP), is a study of understanding and production of linguistic action patterns by non-native speakers in using second languages (Kasper and Blum-Kulka, 1993). Interlanguage pragmatic studies are covered by two disciplines, namely Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Pragmatics. Furthermore, there are several approaches in teaching pragmatics for second language learning. The pragmatic teaching approaches are the communicative approach, the explicit-implicit approach, and the 6R approach. The use of this approach is adapted to the situation, conditions, and circumstances of the learners and it is also possible to modify or use a combination of several approaches at once.