pragmatics

<logic, discipline> the characterization, for a natural or artificial, language or relationships between sentences, the world, and the situation of speaker and hearer. Pragmatics is particularly concerned with indexical words such as "I," "Here," "That," "She," "Now," which are sensitive to the context of utterance or statement.

[A Philosophical Glossary]

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