Editing Pragmatics (section)

==Origin of the field==
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Pragmatics was a reaction to [[Structuralism|structuralist]] linguistics as outlined by [[Ferdinand de Saussure]]. In many cases, it expanded upon his idea that language has an analyzable structure, composed of parts that can be defined in relation to others. Pragmatics first engaged only in [[Course in General Linguistics#Synchronic and diachronic axes|synchronic]] study, as opposed to examining the historical development of language. However, it rejected the notion that all meaning comes from [[sign (semiotics)|signs]] existing purely in the abstract space of ''langue''. Meanwhile, [[historical pragmatics]] has also come into being. The field did not gain linguists' attention until the 1970s, when two different schools emerged: the Anglo-American pragmatic thought and the European continental pragmatic thought (also called the perspective view).<ref>{{cite book | last=Jucker | first=Andreas H. | date=2012-01-12 | chapter=Pragmatics in the history of linguistic thought | pages=495–512 | doi=10.5167/UZH-57900 | doi-access=free | chapter-url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/57900/1/Jucker_Pragmatics_in_the_history_of_linguistic_thought.pdf | editor-last=Allan | editor-first=Keith | editor-last2=Jaszczolt | editor-first2=Kasia M. | title=The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics | publisher=Cambridge University Press | series=Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics | isbn=978-0-521-19207-1}}</ref>