Pragmatics

• pragmatics 


  looks at the difference between literal meaning of words and their intended meaning in social context
• implicature meaning that are suggested but not are not obvious

  • involves conveying additional meaning indirectly relying on shared knowledge and context e.g. its getting late
• inference

  • drawing a conclusion based on the available information and context
• presupposition


  assumption that the speaker knows about what their listener already knows or believe