How the ‘Unsaid’ is communicated in English and Colloquial Arabic: A Comparative Study | ||
| Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies | ||
| Article 4, Volume 11, Issue 1, December 2022, Pages 87-98 PDF (727.93 K) | ||
| Document Type: Scientific Articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2022.285064 | ||
| Author | ||
| Lamiaa Atef Said | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Pragmatics is concerned with the meaning, not only the lexical meaning but also it goes beyond the literal meaning to arrive at a pragmatic meaning. It needs a situation, participants and chunks of words. These words mean more than their dictionary meaning. They have some other meanings to offer. This invisible meaning is communicated through some words in a conversation. It conveys the idea of what George Yule calls "the unsaid" in his book Pragmatics and how it is kept unspoken yet communicated to other participant(s) in a shared context. | ||
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