Pragmatics

Pragmatics is the study of meaning in language in a particular context.

This includes the place where the thing is said, who says it, and the things that you have already said. Also, pragmatics studies how people speak when they both know something.

Pragmatics studies how people speak not literally, but in an indirect way. It studies why, even though this is the case, people can still understand each other. It studies how people can understand each other even if the words are ambiguous.

The ability to understand what someone intends to tell you is called pragmatic competence.

Pragmatics Media

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  Major levels of linguistic structure. Pragmatics is shown as the outermost layer.

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  The six factors of an effective verbal communication. To each one corresponds a communication function (not displayed in this picture).