Pragmatics; the return of words from metaphysics

Between the contemporary linguists and thinkers there are so many who do not account pragmatics as a component of linguistic science and theory. It is because pragmatics is mainly concerned with context (context – based) and we know that the study of the context seems sometimes impossible – because of its being infinite. But even the contemporary generative school of linguistics which pursuits a theory of competence considers such a theory as a sub-branch of performance theory. This paper has been written with this presupposition that pragmatics if considered as a part of lingistics provides a new way of meaning analysis. This paper will express the origin of such a need in philosophy of language. Wittgenstein provided the prerequisites of such a knowledge by his new approaches to language. Pragmatics as it is today has its roots in wittgenstein’s ideas and it was developed by functionalists. In the present paper it will be tried to show how the philosophical approaches to the world affairs and mental entities determines one’s approach to language. Pragmatics could never be emerged from the idealism and nominclaturism because the idealist believed that words – and language ingeneral – can cause the thought to be misled. Pragmaticism can be just the descent of empiricism and pragmatism.