Speakers and writers often mean much more than they say/write and expect their hearers/listeners to understand them. They will generally assume that some aspects of meanings that are not expressed in words are deducible from the context. This assumption is based on their shared environment, values, social conventions or world view which guides them to interpret meanings beyond words or grammatical structures. Ultimately the goal is to rightly interpret the speakers intended meaning. The notion of the speakers or writer‟ s intended meaning is a very crucial element in the study of pragmatics. As one can see in this study, traditional pragmatics is all about investigating the speaker/writer intended meaning rather than what is expressed in words. So, the aims of this study are thus: to define pragmatics in ones own words and words of other scholars of the discipline, describe the origin of pragmatics, examine the principles/goals of pragmatics, the scope of pragmatics, and the brief explanation of the context in language use.