“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”
“Pragmatics studies the factors that govern our choice of language in social interaction and the effects of our choice on others.”
Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1987, p. 120
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