- "In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning."
The study of how context affects the use and interpretation of language.
Speech acts: The ways in which we use language to perform actions in the world, such as making requests, giving orders, making promises, and so on.
Conversational implicature: The implied meanings of utterances that arise through context and cooperation, rather than being explicitly stated.
Presupposition: The assumptions that speakers make about their listeners' background knowledge when constructing their utterances.
Reference: The ways in which language is used to refer to things in the world, and how we use context to disambiguate these references.
Speech acts and indirectness: How speakers can use indirect language to convey politeness, assertiveness, or other social meanings.
Metapragmatics: The ways in which speakers and listeners make use of their social and cultural knowledge to interpret and negotiate meaning in interactions.
Politeness strategies: The range of language and nonverbal behaviors that people use to show politeness in different contexts and cultures.
Cross-cultural pragmatics: How pragmatic practices vary across different cultural and linguistic contexts, and how people can learn to navigate these differences.
Speech acts: The study of how language is used to perform actions, make requests, give orders, make promises, etc.
Presupposition: The study of assumptions and background knowledge that are implied in a speaker's linguistic expressions.
Implicature: The study of meaning that is implied by a speaker, but not explicitly stated.
Relevance theory: The study of how communication is designed to achieve relevance between speakers and listeners.
Politeness theory: The study of how speakers use language to maintain social relationships, show respect, and avoid conflict.
Discourse analysis: The study of how language is used in context, including the study of spoken and written texts, conversation, and social interaction.
Intercultural pragmatics: The study of how cultural differences affect language use, and how to communicate effectively across cultures.
Pragmatics of translation and interpretation: The study of how to translate and interpret language in a way that accurately conveys meaning and context.
Computer-mediated communication: The study of how language is used in online communication, including email, instant messaging, social media, and other digital platforms.
Pragmatics of humor: The study of how humor functions in communication, and how it is used to achieve various goals, such as bonding, social commentary, and breaking tension.
- "The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship between the interpreter and the interpreted."
- "Linguists who specialize in pragmatics are called pragmaticians."
- "The field has been represented since 1986 by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)."
- "Pragmatics encompasses phenomena including implicature, speech acts, relevance and conversation, as well as nonverbal communication."
- "Theories of pragmatics go hand-in-hand with theories of semantics, which studies aspects of meaning, and syntax which examines sentence structures, principles, and relationships."
- "The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called pragmatic competence."
- "Pragmatics emerged as its own subfield in the 1950s after the pioneering work of J.L. Austin and Paul Grice."
- "Pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning."
- "The field has been represented since 1986 by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)."
- "Pragmatics encompasses phenomena including implicature, speech acts, relevance and conversation, as well as nonverbal communication."
- "Theories of pragmatics go hand-in-hand with theories of semantics, which studies aspects of meaning."
- "Linguists who specialize in pragmatics are called pragmaticians."
- "The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called pragmatic competence."
- "Pragmatics emerged as its own subfield in the 1950s after the pioneering work of J.L. Austin and Paul Grice."
- "The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions."
- "The field has been represented since 1986 by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)."
- "The field of study evaluates [...] as well as the relationship between the interpreter and the interpreted."
- "Pragmatics encompasses phenomena including implicature, speech acts, relevance and conversation, as well as nonverbal communication."
- "Syntax examines sentence structures, principles, and relationships."