Field of Study:

Discourse & Pragmatics is a subfield of Semantic Text Processing that deals with the analysis and understanding of language use in context, beyond the surface-level meaning of individual words or sentences. Discourse Analysis focuses on the organization and structure of text and conversation, and how they convey coherence, cohesion, and discourse relations, such as topic shifts, references, and implicatures. Pragmatics focuses on the study of language use in social and communicative situations, and how speakers and listeners use context, knowledge, and inference to convey meaning and achieve their communicative goals.