Pragmatic Analysis and Comprehension of Poorly Written EFL Text

Abstract

Pragmatic presuppositions are conditions which are necessary for a sentence to be appropriate in a given context. It is presumed that the context plays a crucial role in understanding the written or spoken text. The written text includes emails, letters, essays, passages, etc. but this paper has mainly concentrated on simple written text of undergraduate EFL students. As such, in the event the poorly written text (pieces of conversation, essays) is difficult to discern, the measures to be taken to understand/analyze the text under consideration forms the crux of this paper. An important thing about texts under study for pragmatic analysis is the approach to facts and opinions. It is presumed that the best way to understand a poorly written text is to collect the background information about the text, and to take the pieces of conversation as a whole rather than dissect the text or speech word by word, consequently making the text to be understood correctly in the light of the relevant context. It puts emphasis on teachers as they should employ certain strategies to teach students how to make their text comprehensible. They are very poor in writing skills and at most of the places, the text appears non sensible which makes analysis complex and ambiguous. And taking the help of context plays a significant role in comprehending such text.