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Pragmatics

Fields and subfields within
linguistics.

phonetics
phonology
morphology
syntax
semantics
- lexical semantics
stylistics
pragmatics

Cognitive linguistics

Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics. It is the study of how context influences the interpretation of meaning. Context here must be interpreted as situation as it may include any imaginable extralinguistic factor.

See also: Speech act, Presupposition, Entailment, Deixis

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What is Pragmatics?

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Discourse | History of linguistics | Presupposition

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