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In 1938, Charles Morris (1901–1979) defined semiotics as the use of signs governed by syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic rules. In 1959, Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) explained that pragmatics refers to the relationships between signs and their users. Since then the discipline has been developed with enthusiasm by philosophers and linguists alike.
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Ke, P. (2019). Pragmatic Contrastive Analysis. In: Contrastive Linguistics. Peking University Linguistics Research, vol 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1385-1_7
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