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1. What is Pragmatics?

1.2. Areas of differences

Areas of differences between Semantics and Pragmatics 

Semantics 

  • studies the literal meaning of the linguistic forms e.g., what is the meaning of X. 
  • Sentence meaning  
  • descriptive meaning

Pragmatics 

  • studies the intended meaning of the linguistic forms e.g., what do you mean by X
  • Utterance meaning 
  • Contextual meaning 
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