Are we out of the waste basket?
Chapters from the history of Hungarian pragmatic research.
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2024.3.257Keywords:
semiotics, pragmatics, language use, philosophy of language, functional cognitive pragmatics, interaction between grammar and pragmaticsAbstract
The present paper aims to provide an insight into the history of Hungarian pragmatic research. The topic of the paper was motivated by results of the Hungarian pragmatic research which are considerable and valuable in an international perspective. The title of the paper refers to an infamous metaphor according to which pragmatics is the waste basket of semantics and raises the question whether pragmatics is now out of the waste basket. By providing a brief overview of Hungarian pragmatic research, the paper answers the question positively, i.e. it says yes, we are out of the waste basket. In light of the results, it can be concluded that Hungarian pragmatics has become an independent linguistic discipline and is equal to semantics and other linguistic fields.
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