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Pragmatics

• Definition: The study of how context affects language use: both whether or not a particular utterance is felicitous in a given context and how the context affects that utterance's meaning or interpretation.

  Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson