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 speakers choice of expression and the addressees interpretation of an utterance: o Context of utterance o Generally observed principles of communication o The goals of the speaker Programmatic concerns, such as o the treatment of given versus new information, including presupposition o deixis o speech acts, especially illocutionary acts o implicature, and
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the relations of meaning or function between portions of discourse (see interpropositional relation) or turns of conversation (see conversation analysis).

Generic Pragmatics is a kind of

What is meaning and pragmatic function?

Sources Levinson 1983 534 Crystal 1985 240 Leech 1983 2, 56