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Chapter II
Theoretical Foundation

ANALYSIS OF PRAGMATICS IN SHORT STORY ‘HILL LIKES WHITE ELEPHANT’

A. Definition of Pragmatics Unsure

Pragmatics is closely related to speech act ,it reviews specific utterances in particular situations and focus on a variety of different ways that contain the social context. Pragmatics rather than just examine the effects of suprasegmental phonemes, dialect and register, but look at performance first speech as a social activity organized by a variety of social conventions. Stephen C. Levinson in his book that entitled “ Pragmatics” said that Pragmatics is a study about the relation between language and contexts which is the basic of note and report language understanding, in other words it’s study of the ability of language users connecting and harmonization sentences and proper contexts.

Different with George (1964:31-8),he assumed that pragmatics is the study about the overall human behavior, particularly in relation to the signs and symbols. It focuses on how human beings behave in the overall situation of giving and receiving of the sign.

From what is assumed of the experts, the writer tends to have the same opinion
with George’s theory, because his theory is more logic. Besides that George revealed the statement that’s easy to understand, so that it could simplify comprehension of pragmatic itself to look for the imply meaning of the speech contexts.