What is pragmatics?Pragmatics is the science of the relation

of sings to their interpreters.

Pragmatics perspectives on language use.Te section uses a brief (authentic)

dialogue in order to introduce some

important terms concepts in modern

pragmatics and to illustrate briefly the sorts

of phenomena that pragmatics needs to

account for.

Pragmatic meaning; Is often assumed that the task of semantic

is to describe and explain linguistic

meaning whereas pragmatics is concerned

with the study of meaning

Working out implicated meaning;Deriving an interpretation that satisfies the

co-operative principle is effected through

four maxims:

Truthfulness

Informativeness

Relevance

Style