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Chapter 6: Pragmatics 1. pragmatics: The study of how speakers uses sentences to effect successful communication. 2. context: The general knowledge shared by the speakers and the hearers. (05) 3. sentence meaning: The meaning of a self-contained unit with abstract and de-contextualized features. 4. utterance meaning: The meaning that a speaker conveys by using a particular utterance in a particular context. (03). 6. Speech Act Theory: The theory proposed by John Austin and deepened by Searle, which believes that we are performing actions when we are speaking. (05) 7. constatives: Constatives a