Pragmatics

The pragmatic perspective is a form of analyzing communications, which is composed of observing the concept of a conversation as a game. The two key rules in this 'game' is that you must have a minimum of two people and those two people must interact in such pattern where eventually they reach an end point for a particular pay off. Looking at conversations from a logical stand point, the concept of conversations being pragmatic does make a whole lot of sense. People bounce thoughts off each other so to say, in hopes to reach a particular goal. Whether it is to figure out how the opponent’s day was or to argue a specific topic with someone, the purpose, emotion, and personality is irrelevant. Just as long as they are following the basic patterned structure of exchanging ideas for a specific goal is all that needs to occur. The best game to compare it to would be volleyball, in means of setting the ball (beginning the conversation), volleying back and forth between opponents (interacting with each other, or conversing), and the main goal is to come to an end result (having your opponent miss the volley, in the end one of them wins).