43.Which of the followings best describes pragmatics?
(A) How people communicate and interpret intentions, and react to them, in a context of language use.
(B) How sounds and their meanings are produced by language users appropriately.
(C) The structure of sentences and how they are related to the way people communicate in real-life
contexts.
(D) The study of the language structures and how they are used to communicate in social contexts.
(D) Pragmatics
was a reaction to structuralist linguistics as
outlined by Ferdinand de Saussure. In many cases, it expanded upon his idea
that language has an analyzable structure, composed of parts that can be
defined in relation to others.