Pragmatics

pragmatic/praɡˈmatɪk/
▶adjective
1 dealing with things in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
2 relating to philosophical or political pragmatism.
3 Linguistics relating to pragmatics.
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prag·mat·ic
[prag-mat-ik] Show IPA
adjective Also, prag·mat·i·cal ( for defs. 1, 2, 5 ).
1. of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
2. Philosophy . of or pertaining to pragmatism ( def. 2 ).
3. of or pertaining to pragmatics ( defs. 1, 2 ).
4. treating historical phenomena with special reference to their causes, antecedent conditions, and results.
5. of or pertaining to the affairs of state or community.
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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)

Wendy Saussure.