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A central question that remains, though, is whether the study of deixis belongs to semantics or to pragmatics .
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As regards metaphor, the cognitive approach appears to share something of both semantics and pragmatics .
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So the notion that pragmatics might be the study of aspects of meaning not covered in semantics certainly has some cogency.
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The distinction between sentence and utterance is of fundamental importance to both semantics and pragmatics .
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This involves information about syntax, semantics, discourse structure, pragmatics and knowledge of the world.
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To this day, most of the important concepts in pragmatics are drawn directly from philosophy of language.
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Unlike many other topics in pragmatics , implicature does not have an extended history.
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Yet pragmatics tends only to examine how meaning develops at a given point.