The branch of linguistics that provides a scientific and systematic study of language in use. Within pragmatics, his work has been concentrating on the interface between it and the other two core areas of linguistics, namely semantics and syntax. In addition, he has also been interested in the interface between pragmatics and socio- and anthropological linguistics, namely the subfields of pragmatics that are labelled ‘sociopragmatics’ and ‘(cross-)cultural pragmatics