Pragmatics is the study of how language is used in context and how more meaning is communicated than what is literally said. It examines how aspects of communication like deixis, presupposition, and implicature contribute to contextual meaning. Pragmatics looks at how language users pair sentences with contexts of use and how language relates to the surrounding social context. Experts define pragmatics as the study of meaning in relation to context, conditions of language use in society, and how speakers communicate intended meanings.

1. PRAGMATICS
BY: NELLA JUNASARI
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2. PRAGMATICS
The word pragmatics is derived from the
Greek word “pragma”, which means “matter”,
“thing”, but also “action”.
(cf.Linke,Nussbaumer & Portmann (1996))

3. What is Pragmatics
Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning.
Pragmatics is the study of contextual
meaning.
Pragmatics is the study of how more get
communicated than is said.
Pragmatics is the study of the expression of
relative distance.

4. Pragmatics according to
experts
1. Pragmatics is the study of those relations between
language and context that are grammaticalized, or
encoded in the structure of a language. (Levinson, 1983:
9)
2. Pragmatics is the study of the conditions of human
language uses as these are determined by the context of
society. Mey (1993: 42)
3. Pragmatics is the study of the ability of language users
to pair sentences with contexts in which they would be
appropriate (Levinson, 1983: 24).

5. Focus and Content
• Deixis: meaning 'pointing to' something.
• Presupposition is background belief, relating
to an utterance,
• Implicature is anything that is inferred from
an utterance but that is not a condition for the
truth of the utterance.