Spread the love“`html When we communicate, we often think about the words we use and how they sound. However, the study of ...

Discourse and pragmatics explore how language functions beyond sentence-level grammar and literal meaning, focusing on how utterances are shaped by context, social norms and speaker intentions.

A new linguistic study of how individuals interpret various types of utterances sheds more light on how literal and contextual meaning are distinguished. The study, "A novel empirical paradigm for ...