2. What is pragmatics?
 Pragmatics is the science of the relation
of sings to their interpreters.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Working out implicated meaning;
 Deriving an interpretation that satisfies the
co-operative principle is effected through
four maxims:
 Truthfulness
 Informativeness
 Relevance
 Style