Semantics and pragmatics: on the issue of interrelation
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The article deals with the issue of interrelation between semantics and pragmatics, which is settled depending on the salient aspects of the considered branches of linguistics: as far as historiography is concerned, the major importance lies in semantics; in producing and perceiving speech utterances, semantics and pragmatics are mutually determined; diachronic approach stipulates prevailing pragmatics over semantics. The main difference between semantics and pragmatics belongs in the realm of methodology. The principle of anthropocentrism as a fundamental feature of pragmatics becomes prominent in utterances content analysis in terms of the speaking subject. This allows for the synchronic analysis of implicit meanings actualized in discourse, as well as diachronic insight into the process of their conventionalization. Methodological principle of linguocentrism underpinning semantics provides primarily synchronic analysis of conventional meanings of utterances.
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