Speaker and interpreted by listener.

Contextual meaning
communicated by;
Writer and interpreted by reader

Of the relations of signs to their

interpreters. (Charles Morris)

Studies Of the relations between linguistic

forms and its users. (Yule)

A: So _ did you?
B: Hey_ who wouldn't?
Two friends in a conversation may imply
How people make sense of each some things and infer some others
other Linguistically?? without providing any clear linguistic
evidence. So, pragmatics
requires us to make sense of what
people have in mind.

WHAT PEOPLE MEAN by their

utterances
1- The study of speakerʼs rather than what the words or
meaning phrases might
mean by themselves.

Importance of context The circumstance and The audience

Individuality
2- The study of contextual
Pragmatics meaning Time

Fundamental categories of Location

context information
Activity

Relation
Listeners or readers infer the
intended meaning in order to
arrive at an interpretation.
3-The study of how more
Readers or listeners make effort to
gets communicated than
understand the unsaid part of what is
said. communicated.

The study of "invisible meaning.

The CLOSENESS or DISTANCE of the

4-The study of the
expression of relative
distance.
B: I'm tired. (I don't want to because I'm
listener or reader determines how
much needs to be said.
For example:
A: there is a store over there (Let's go
inside)
B: no (I don't want to go inside)
A: why not? (why do you not want to
go inside?)
tired.)