The study of the way speakers of a language actually use the language to communicate with one another is called

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Pragmatics is the branch of linguistics concerned with the ways in which context contributes to meaning. It studies how the transmission of meaning depends not only on the linguistic knowledge (e.g., grammar, lexicon, etc.) of the speaker and listener, but also on the context of the utterance, any pre-existing knowledge about those involved, the inferred intent of the speaker, and other factors.

The Study of the Way Speakers of a Language Actually