A Theoretical Survey on Critical Pragmatics

Critical pragmatics is a sub field of sociopragmatics that works in the fashion of critical discourse analysis. according to the perspective view, macro pragmatics is divided into three groups, the cognitively oriented, the socially and/or culturally oriented and the third group is for issues that cannot be fit within either of the other two groups. here, the socially oriented group is concerned with social issues such power, language, and ideology considering that power and ideology as socially oriented issues. within this framework critical pragmatics has come to existence. the present paper presents a theoretical survey about critical pragmatics, its origins and main approaches. more specifically, the aim of the paper is to provide an answer to the following questions: what is critical pragmatics? and what are its origins and main approaches? subsequently, to achieve the aim of study, a theoretical survey about critical pragmatics and its origins is conducted, in addition to the main approaches in the field. moreover, the study has dealt with the work on critical pragmatics by korta and perry (2011) and showed that this work has nothing to do critical pragmatics meant to deal with social practices but the name. the paper has concluded that the seeds of critical pragmatics are originated in mey’s (1979) and the main approaches to the field are habermass (1979) and mey (2011).