pragmatics is the study of the use of language to structure reality

as meaningful experience

four types of context

facts, intentions, beliefs, social institutions
utterer vs source of information vs virtual utterer
participants vs non-participants
virtual interpreters
deictic vs non-deictic uses
deictic centre vs deictic shifts (projections from speaker to addressee)
referring vs addressing in honorific uses
addressees, referent, bystander honorifics
deictic manipulation
proximal vs distal deixis
visibility and elevation as grammatical categories
discourse deixis
pragmatic anaphora

reference
attributive use vs referential use of expressions
metonymy
metonymic shift
entailment
presupposition: existential, lexical, factive, non-factive, counterfactual, structural, pragmatic
projection problem

constatives vs performatives
performative verbs
locution
illocution, illocutionary point
perlocution
speech act and its five classes
sincerity condition
felicity condition
preparatory conditions
direct speech act vs indirect speech act
natural meaning vs non-natural meaning
cooperative principle
maxims of conversation
conversational implicature
flouting of a maxim
features of implicatures
hedging
generalized vs particularized implicature
scalar implicature
conventional implicature
Q-implicature
I-implicatures
M-implicature
meta-linguistic negation
relevance
explicature
r-implicature
higher level explicature
salience
ostention
ostensive inferential communication
politeness
negative politeness
positive politeness
face
Positive face
Negative face
Politeness strategies
Acting on record
Acting off record
FTA
FSA
Hedging
Politeness1
Politeness2
Relational work
Overpoliteness
Impoliteness
Rudeness
Turn taking
TRP
Adjacency pair
Repair sequence
Overlap
Back-channelling