The pragmatics of modern languages concern the embedding of linguistic utterances into contexts of use (speaker, hearer, situation, time, etc.) and the action patterns, formed by linguistic utterances (i.e., speech acts, conversational sequences). In an evolutionary perspective these contexts of action (the ecology, the group structure) become dominant, because language itself is only emerging step-by-step and reshaping, developing the earlier action patterns. At the same time, the social ecology (and later the physical ecology) is dramatically changed by the effect of linguistic thinking and communication. The field of evolutionary pragmatics focuses on the forces which shaped human language, given the pragmatic and contextual structure of a population which was on the stage of transition to a symbolic culture. This phase of transition probably took a long time, i.e., 2–1,7 million years, and, therefore, the pragmatics underlying human language rather than more conventional symbolic features were the major field of constitutive forces giving rise to human language, and all the complexities found in current grammars and lexicons.