Editing Pragmatics (section)

==Areas of interest==
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* The study of the speaker's meaning focusing not on the phonetic or grammatical form of an utterance but on what the speaker's intentions and beliefs are.
* The study of the meaning in context and the influence that a given context can have on the message. It requires knowledge of the speaker's identities, and the place and time of the utterance.
* The study of [[implicature]]s: the things that are communicated even though they are not explicitly expressed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-pragmatics-definition-examples.html|title=What is Pragmatics? - Definition & Examples - Video & Lesson Transcript |website=study.com|language=en|access-date=2017-07-11}}</ref>
* The study of relative distance, both social and physical, between speakers in order to understand what determines the choice of what is said and what is not said.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pragmatics|title=Definition of PRAGMATICS|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en|access-date=2019-09-30}}</ref>
* The study of what is not meant, as opposed to the intended meaning: what is unsaid and unintended, or unintentional.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sensationalkids.ie/what-are-pragmatic-language-skills/|title=What are Pragmatic Language Skills?|last=Leigh|first=Karen|date=2018-03-03|website=Sensational Kids|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-30}}</ref>
* [[Information structure]], the study of how utterances are marked in order to efficiently manage the common ground of referred entities between speaker and hearer.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0130.xml|title=Linguistics|chapter=Information Structure|year=2016|doi=10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0130|last1=Zimmermann|first1=Malte|isbn=978-0-19-977281-0}}</ref> 
* [[Formal Pragmatics]], the study of those aspects of meaning and use for which context of use is an important factor by using the methods and goals of [[Formal semantics (linguistics)|formal semantics]].
*The study of the role of pragmatics in the development of children with [[Autism spectrum|autism spectrum disorders]] or developmental language disorder [[Developmental language disorder|(DLD).]]<ref>{{Cite journal|pmid=32379523|year=2020|last1=Andrés-Roqueta|first1=Clara|last2=Katsos|first2=Napoleon |title=A Distinction Between Linguistic and Social Pragmatics Helps the Precise Characterization of Pragmatic Challenges in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Language Disorder|journal=Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research|volume=63|issue=5|pages=1494–1508|doi=10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00263|hdl=10234/190618|s2cid=218554970|hdl-access=free | url=https://repositori.uji.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10234/190618/andres_2020_disti.pdf}}</ref>