: It prioritizes what people intend to communicate through their utterances over the literal meaning of the words themselves.
The book is structured into nine main chapters that cover the fundamental pillars of pragmatic theory: Book Review: Pragmatics by George Yule | PDF - Scribd Pragmatics By George Yule
: It examines how context (who, where, when) influences what is said and how it is organized. : It prioritizes what people intend to communicate
: It investigates how listeners make inferences to interpret intended but unexpressed meanings. Pragmatics By George Yule