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One of the salient features of language is that it can be used to say something without directly stating the words which carry the information. Such instances fall within the domain of pragmatics since it deals with language in the context of use and the implied meaning is important, not the literal meaning of the words. Thus, to understand poetry in the right way, it is better for readers to look at the literary piece from a pragmatic perspective.
In this seminar, two poems will be analyzed according to the principles of pragmatics, mainly metaphors and presuppositions. For metaphors, Levinson states that since metaphors are usually associated with the intended meaning of the addresser, the context in which a metaphor is used seems to be more important than its formal linguistic information; i.e., metaphor falls more within pragmatics than semantics.
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