ABSTRACT
Language Pragmatics takes as axiomatic that when people speak, what is said (sentence meaning) is a factor in, but not a determinant of, the speaker's meaning-the meaning of saying that sentence (utterance meaning). Sentences are considered in Language Pragmatics to exist, with the particular form and lexicon they comprise, only as that which was uttered by someone to particular others in particular circumstances for a social or practical reason.
