Update: After I wrote this shortform, I did more investigation in Pragmatics and realized most of this was better expressed there.
What’s Pragmatics in this case?
Ah, sorry for not responding earlier. By Pragmatics I meant Pragmatics in linguistics. It studies what people mean when they say words. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatics/
Update: After I wrote this shortform, I did more investigation in Pragmatics and realized most of this was better expressed there.
What’s Pragmatics in this case?
Ah, sorry for not responding earlier. By Pragmatics I meant Pragmatics in linguistics. It studies what people mean when they say words.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatics/