Questão 3045214

• Banca: IDECAN
• Órgão: Colégio Pedro II
• Ano: 2015
• Provas: IDECAN - 2015 - Colégio Pedro II - Professor - Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects

Text VIII

“When I first lived in Saudi Arabia, I tended to answer questions in Arabic about my health (the equivalent of ‘ ‘How are you’?) with the equivalent of my familiar routine responses of ‘Okay’ or ‘Fine’. However, I eventually noticed that when I asked a similar question, people generally answered with a phrase that had the literal meaning of ‘Praise to God’. I soon learned to use the new expression, wanting to be pragmatically appropriate in that context. My first type of answer wasn't ‘wrong’ (my vocabulary and pronunciation weren't inaccurate), but it did convey the meaning that I was a social outsider who answered in an unexpected way.”

             (YULE, G. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. pp.5.)

The narrative illustrates the fact that Pragmatics is concerned with:

• A. “the study of the relationship between linguistic forms and the users of those forms” (YULE, 1996:4)
• B. “the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and entities in the world, that is, how words literally connect to things” (YULE, 1996:4)
• C. “the formal relation of signs to one another and relations of signs and the objects to which they are applicable” (MORRIS, 1938, apud LEVINSON)
• D. “the study of the relationship between linguistic forms, how they are arranged in sequence and which sequences are well formed” (YULE, 1996:4)

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• a-

  In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses phenomena including implicature, speech acts, relevance and conversation. Theories of pragmatics go hand-in-hand with theories of semantics, which studies aspects of meaning which are grammatically or lexically encoded. The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called pragmatic competence.

  The sentence "You have a green light" is ambiguous. Without knowing the context, the identity of the speaker or the speaker's intent, it is difficult to infer the meaning with certainty. For example, it could mean:

  • the space that belongs to you has green ambient lighting;
  • you are driving through a green traffic signal;
  • you no longer have to wait to continue driving;
  • you are permitted to proceed in a non-driving context;
  • your body is cast in a greenish glow;
  • you possess a light source which radiates green; or
  • you possess a light bulb with a green surface.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics#Ambiguity