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CHAPTER - fi Di RSE AND PRAGMATI 1. Central Idea of the Chapter. Chapter 3, “Discourse and Pragmatics”, clarifies the relationship between language and context. This section shows that both pragmatics andHdiscourse analysis share an interest in the relationship between language andH context and how language is used to perform dilerent speech acts. The chapter begins by defining pragmatics i.e. the study of meaning in relation to the context in which the discourse is being produced. 2. Language, Context and Discourse. Use of Language in context is very important in discourse analysis. Same language carries different meaning in dilerent context. For example, the word ‘duck’ in normal English language is only the ‘bird’. The same word ‘duck’ while being used in cricket would mean ‘zero score’. So, what determines the meanings of discourse is the use of discourse in context. However, there are other factors which also play very important role like physical, social contexts and the mental world and roles of people involved in the interactions. 3. Speech Acts and Discourse. Austin argued that there are three kinds of acts which occur with everything we say. These are locutionary act, the illocutionary act and perlocutionary act. The locutionary act refers to the dictionary meaning of words, the illocutionary act refers to the speakers’ intended meanings and the perlocutionary act refers to the way discourse is perceived by others. 
