In this section we introduce one such attempt—the socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics, represented by Istvan Kecskes, Professor at the State University of New York, USA.
The study of this facet of language is conducted within the domain of pragmatics, which is concerned less with how grammatical constructions are structured and more with why they have the structure that they do.
The distinction between semantics and pragmatics can indeed be illustrated by the different uses of the verb " mean" in the questions " What does X mean? " and " What did you mean by X? "