His work in pragmatics, in particular his innovation in the theory of scalar implicature, is widely influential.
en.wikipedia.org Sociolinguistics overlaps to a considerable degree with pragmatics.
en.wikipedia.org Foregrounding can occur on all levels of language (phonology, graphology, morphology, lexis, syntax, semantics and pragmatics).
en.wikipedia.org Pragmatics helps anthropologists relate elements of language to broader social phenomena; it thus pervades the field of linguistic anthropology.
en.wikipedia.org Interpretive argumentation is pertinent to the humanities, hermeneutics, literary theory, linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, semiotics, analytic philosophy and aesthetics.
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