THE IMPORTANCE OF WORD STRESS IN PRAGMATICS TO DIFFERENTIATE MEANING
Keywords:
discourse, inference, social perception, presupposition, implied meaning, word stress.Abstract
This article characterizes the role of word stress, types of meanings inferred by the hearer in connection with pragmatic situations, their importance in our everyday life and how word strees greatly effects the meaning of utterence. In this work various examples are given to prove the main role of stress. As pragmatics is strongly tied with context, several real life occasions are supported to differentiate how the wrong usage of word stress greatly affects the meaning of the sentence. Leaning on views of high-experienced researchers, valid examples are supported in this article.
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