Pragmatic competence and implicature: Learning process of pakistani graduates in english

This paper explores the issues of pragmatic competence as observed in the graduates of selected Pakistani universities. The researchers have found that the students of graduation level lack in pragmatic competence during (English) L2 learning process. Trilingual society of Pakistan is facing the problem of pragmatic competence and its implicature because each mind has all the three different set of rules and grammar. For instance, national language (Urdu), mother tongues (Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Pashto, etc.) and the international language (English). The research aims at exploring that the status of pragmatic competence of Pakistani EEL learners in terms of its implicatures? The data has been collected from the EFL classrooms of graduation level students. The researchers have selected two renowned universities of Pakistan, The University of Lahore and The University of Education from the province of Punjab.