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Chapter Eight Language in Use(Pragmatics) 1. Introduction: Definition of Pragmatics The study of language in use. The study of meaning in context. The study of speakers’ meaning, utterance meaning, contextual meaning. Speaker’s meaning (A father is trying to get his 3-year-old daughter to stop lifting up her dress to display her new underwear to the assemble.) Father: We don’t DO that. Daughter: I KNOW, Daddy. You don’t WEAR dresses. Utterance Meaning vs. Sentence Meaning Utterance vs. Sentence Se