The three levels of cognitive process in listening are signal processing, semantic processing, and pragmatic processing. Semantic processing refers to the understanding of the actual message being conveyed, while pragmatic processing involves interpreting the meaning within a broader context such as tone, body language, and social cues.

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PRAGMATIC PLAY

To start, pragmatics is the study of the ability to communicate more than which is explicitly stated. The ability to understand another speakers 'intended' meaning is what we call pragmatic competence.

An example:

A mother wishes her son to clean his room. She could say:

"Clean your room."

This is direct and with clear semantic meaning. Alternativly, the mother could say:

"It's like a pig sty in your room."

This implies a similar meaning but is indirect and therefore requires pragmatic inference to derive the intended meaning. The 'understood' communication is still "clean your room".

semantic: