In linguistics, pragmatics is concerned with bridging the explanatory gap between sentence meaning and speaker’s meaning. The study of how context influences the interpretation is then crucial. "Context" here must be interpreted as situation as it may include any imaginable extra-linguistic factor, including discourse, social, environmental, and psychological factors.

Methodology and presuppositions

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Pragmatics is interested predominantly in utterances, made up of sentences, and usually in the context of conversations.

A distinction is made in pragmatics between sentence meaning and speaker meaning. Sentence meaning is the literal meaning of the sentence, while the speaker meaning is the concept that the speaker is trying to convey.

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Just heard @ibogost on the pragmatics of approaching the world via the object oriented ontology of @doctorzamalek -- very illuminating.
shaviro (Steven Shaviro) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:59:14 -0000
Just heard @ibogost on the pragmatics of approaching the world via the object oriented ontology of @doctorzamalek -- very illuminating.
At this point, I'll take Sarah Palin's instincts over Newt Gingrich's pragmatics any day... #tcot
someGit (ManBearPig) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:34:50 -0000
At this point, I'll take Sarah Palin's instincts over Newt Gingrich's pragmatics any day... #tcot
I want to read: Programming Language Pragmatics, Thir... by Michael L. Scott - http://bit.ly/2mHdFg
davidledwards (David Edwards) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:23:47 -0000
I want to read: Programming Language Pragmatics, Thir... by Michael L. Scott - http://bit.ly/2mHdFg
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...in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics. (huh?)
cybrarian (Jean Dingo) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:09:31 -0000
...in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics. (huh?)
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