Pragmatics: The Deep Meaning of Utterances in Context

Abstract

“Pragmatics” is an important field in any language that deals with the hidden and deep meaning of a certain utterance, and tends to explore the intention of the speaker who is the only one to know the exact meaning of his/ her words. In order to understand the deep meaning of pragmatics, the researchers have decided to distribute a questionnaire among (14) male and female students at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences in the Foundation Year (FY) at Ibri College. What has been reached is that in order to comprehend well the speaker’s utterances, it is not enough to only deal with the surface structure: vocabulary, grammar, etc., but also to go deeper so as to know the possible intentions of the speaker or writer. Implications, applications, discussion, recommendations, suggestions, will be pointed out in the following pages.