Syntax is defined as the study of linguistic form, semantics as the study of the relation between those forms and the functions (including illocutionary force) they can serve, and pragmatics as the study of the relations between forms, functions and the contexts or settings in which those forms can have the functions in question. F. defends and illustrates an approach to discourse analysis in which the pragmatic conditions of different types of discourse are described and in which the correlating forms of those functions are identified.