This article examines how pragmatics functions as a central investigative lens for modern linguistics and how it reshapes the analysis of meaning, interaction, and language use across heterogeneous empirical domains. Building on foundational theories—speech act theory, implicature, relevance, politeness, indexicality—and integrating contemporary approaches such as corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, interactional linguistics, and computational modeling, the study articulates a pragmatic research framework suited to current linguistic problems. Methodologically, the article employs a mixed-theory synthesis and a targeted review of representative corpora-based and experimental studies to illustrate how pragmatic constructs operationalize the relationship between form, context, and inference. Results are presented as converging insights about the distribution of pragmatic phenomena in real usage, the cognitive mechanisms that support inferential communication, and the social dynamics through which norms are negotiated. The discussion argues that pragmatics is no longer a peripheral subfield but a binding “interface science” connecting semantics, syntax, prosody, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, and natural language processing. It shows that pragmatic reasoning is essential for modeling meaning under uncertainty, for understanding cross-cultural communication, for characterizing variation and change, and for designing language technologies that act appropriately in context. The conclusion delineates a research agenda emphasizing multi-modal evidence, cross-linguistic breadth, open data and tools, and theoretically informed computational implementations to sustain cumulative progress in the next generation of pragmatic inquiry.

Pragmatics, implicature, speech acts

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