What is pragmatics?

Definition
	Pragmatics is the study of the aspects of meaning and language use that are dependent on the speaker, the addressee and other features of the context of utterance, such as the following:
	The effect that the following have on the speaker’s choice of expression and the addressee’s interpretation of an utterance: Context of utterance Generally observed principles of communication The goals of the speaker Programmatic concerns, such as the treatment of given versus new information, including presupposition deixis speech acts, especially illocutionary acts implicature, and the relations of meaning or function between portions of discourse (see interpropositional relation) or turns of conversation (see conversation analysis).