Pragmatics - It is conceptualized as the science of language use, the study of context-dependent meaning and the study of speaker-intended meaning, presupposing the existence of language, language user and context on the one hand, and context-independent meaning on the other (Fetzer, 2011)., Common ground - Refers to a presupposed common knowledge base, which is a necessary condition for felicitous communication (Fetzer, 2011)., Intertextuality - Referring item that refers to entities in the background knowledge whether cultural or interpersonal, that have obviously been mentioned in a previous conversation or text or have occurred in a previously shared situation or activity (Beaugrand & Dressler, 1981, as cited in Cutting, 2002), Speech acts - It is the vocalization of a certain representation of the world (external or internal) aimed at making official the display of an intention to change a state of things and at changing things by the public display of that intention (Campone, 2006), Presupposition - Refers to a proposition or an inference whose validity is taken for granted for a sentence to be true or for a speech act to be felicitous (Fetzer, 2011, Ellipsis - Omission of words to avoid repetition. It Is a typical feature of both spoken and written text and depends on the hearer or reader’s being able to retrieve the missing words from the surrounding co-text (Cutting, 2002)., Use conditions - Refer to beliefs or attitudes of the speaker and amount to presuppositions; they are so strongly linked to a syntactic construction that it sounds irrational to use that construction and then deny that the conditions hold (Green, 2011)., Conversational implicature - It is any meaning implied or expressed by, and inferred or understood from, the utterance of a sentence which is meant without being part of what is strictly said (Huang, 2011)., Entailment - It is derived from formal logic. It refers to a semantic relation that can be defined in terms of truth. Thus, entailment represents a truth-functional relationship in the sense that its function is to predict the truth value of a proposition from what is known of the truth value of another (Huang, 2011)., Felicity conditions - The context and roles of participants that must be recognized by all parties; the action must be carried out completely, and the persons must have the right intentions., Deixis - It refers to an expression that points to the referent in the context, whether interlocutors can see it or not (Cutting, 2002)., Situational context - It is the immediate physical co-presence, the situation where the interaction is taking place at the moment of speaking (Cutting, 2002),

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