MEANING, INFERENCE, AND THE ROLE OF MAXIMS IN CONNECTION WITH WORD  STRESS IN PRAGMATICS

Nafisa Qosimova

Authors

Nafisa Qosimova Buxoro davlat universiteti

Keywords:

literal meaning, social context, presupposition, inference, implicature, word stress, maxims

Abstract

This article characterizes kinds of utterance meanings, types of inferences invoked by the
hearer in connection with word stress, their importance in speech and how word strees greatly effects the
meaning of utterence. In this work various examples are given to prove the main role of stress. As
pragmatics is tightly connected with context, severel real life situations are supported to differentiate how
misusing strees greatly changes the meaning of the sentence. Basing on analysis of prominent researchers,
salient examples are given.