The Relationship between Pragmatics and Other Fields

Linguistics is simply can be defined as the scientific or systematic study of language.it can be studied in two ways.Either about other science outside itself which is called Macro linguistics, that branch contains Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Stylistics and discourse analysis.or Micro -Linguistics is the branch which studies language within itself, this branch contains Phonetics, phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics.Pragmatics is a critical aspect within linguistics in general and especially within Micro linguistics which has a significant impact on learning language.However this aspect has not received sufficient attention from EFL researchers.There for, it is important to investigate the relationship between Pragmatics and other fields.The aims of the study is to shed light on the one of the most important branch of Macro Linguistics which is Pragmatics and it's relation with other fields.This research tries to answer the following questions what is meant by Pragmatics and identifying is there a relationship between pragmatics and other discipline of Linguistics?The study concluded that Pragmatics is subfield of Linguistics which concerns to study how context contributes to meaning.It encompasses speech act theory ,conversation implicate, talk in interaction and other approaches to language behavior in philosophy ,sociology Linguistics and anthropology.