0 the study of how language is affected by the situation in which it is used, of how language is used to get things or perform actions, and of how words can express things that are different from what they appear to mean
In such a framework, there would seem to be no reason not to include social meaning along with 'ordinary' semantics and pragmatics.
How to do good things with words : a social pragmatics for survival.
Topicality, which is grammatically encoded by case and agreement, is mapped to the pragmatics interface by an algorithm.
Fourth, what light can the study of prosody shed on the place of pragmatics in the architecture of the mind?
Pre-school children are still learning the pragmatics of social communication.
Truth-value story tasks provide a way of manipulating context to demonstrate the effect of pragmatics on judgments of acceptability.
It has the potential to provide mechanisms for a breadth of phenomena, in areas that include syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology.
However, pragmatics not pundits may have the last word.
