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Sa, Wi Guk & Lee, Woo-Cheol. 2014. Pragmatics in Chinese Studies. Journal of Linguistic Studies 19(2), 207-223. From a research perspective, there is some overlap in pragmatics, semantics and the pragmatic level among three-flat theory which was applied in the study of Chinese. Pragmatics is a study on actual usage of the literally same meaning in various linguistic situations. In this way, pragmatics is different from semantics whose focus goes on the literal understanding of meaning. Put it different way, the study of semantics pay more attention to the propositional meaning and truth-value of proposition. On the other hand, pragmatics put much focus on the connotative meaning based on the actual use of language. The real purpose of communication is to get the better interpretation of a sentence in a given context. Pragmatics is different from the pragmatic level among three flats in terms of theoretical background and research targets. Pragmatics mainly deals with Speech Act, Conversational implicature, Relevance Theory, Conversational Analysis, Deixis, Presupposition, Politeness Principles, etc. In contrast, the pragmatic level among three flats has something to do with Topic and Comment, Focus, Mood, Tone, Comment constituent, and syntactic structural change. (Kyungpook National University)