What is Pragmatics For example, it can elicit different lexical meanings of the noun“man”( mankind or the human race, an individual person, a male person specifically) and the preposition"on (on top of, above, or other relationships as in on fire”,“ on heat",“ on duty”," on the fiddle” or"“ on the telly”)What is Pragmatics • For example, it can elicit different lexical meanings of the noun “man” (mankind or the human race, an individual person, a male person specifically) and the preposition “on” (on top of, above, or other relationships as in “on fire”, “on heat”, “on duty”, “on the fiddle” or “on the telly”)