Pragmatics: Deals with the conditions under which linguistic manifestations are acceptable, appropriate and opportune.

. Studies the relationship between text and context. As for context, it is the elements that systematically determine the structure and interpretation of utterances. (Textual Structure) And the conditions that make utterances to result into speech acts. Categories: o o o o o o Speaker and interlocutor. Action they perform. Linguistic system they use. What they know in relation to speech acts. What they pursue and project. Speakers mutual attitudes.

The language use is not reduced only in producing a utterance, but its at the same time the execution of a certain social action. This means that we want to modify the knowledge, wishes and eventually the behavior of our interlocutor. In pragmatics, speech acts may be a success or a failure. In order to be successful, they have to achieve the intended final state. Theory of action Event: Modification (From initial to final state) Phase: Intermediate states. Process: Continuous series of modifications.

Actions are a special type of event. They are formed by a combination of doing (which is an external modification of the body, this means that we can control it) and a purpose (which is the function that the doing may have). Now, this purpose or intention can be divided in two categories. The first one is the local intention, which is the one for individual actions.

The second one is called global intention, or plan. This one coordinates individual actions in order to achieve certain final goal. This global intention and goal are called macrostructure.

Since actions are intentional, they are not perceptible or identifiable as a doing is, but they are based on the interpretation of a doing. When the action is perceived, interpreted and described, this means that this action is attributed to someone, making a supposition on his intentions and objectives. For an intention to be rational it is required to have a previous knowledge on possible consequences and on the scope of actions (quantity of actions we can perform at once, the properties of the world we refer the action to) Interaction is a series of actions in which a variety of people is seen alternatively or simultaneously implied as agents. The previous condition for this interaction to happen is having a partial access to interlocutors knowledge, wishes, intentions and purposes. As for Speech Acts, it is said that they are also actions. This means that we do something with the correspondent intention. Besides, they have wider purposes, more specifically pragmatic. The relationship between text and context is on the one hand, there are certain textual features that may constitute aspects of context. And on the other hand, the structure of context may determine which features should the text dispose in order to be acceptable. This relationship is the result of the relationship between the meaning of a sentence and the conditions for the achievement of speech acts. When it comes to the knowledge of the speaker, we are dealing mainly with the knowledge of the world, the context and the interlocutor. These are the main factors which determine pragmatic characteristics. From this one also is born the concept of connectivity which is two propositions attached together when the circumstances that they represent are attached together as well. Macrolevel of speech acts: There is a main speech act, and the second and following speech acts are pragmatically subordinated to the main action.