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The study of language use
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pragmatics
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n. the study of language use
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A central question that remains, though, is whether the study of deixis belongs to semantics or to pragmatics . ▪ As regards metaphor, the cognitive approach appears to share something of both semantics and pragmatics . ▪ So ...
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Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature , talk in interaction and other approaches to language behavior in ...
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n. (context linguistics English) The study of the use of language in a social context.
Usage examples of pragmatics.
The phlegmatic, has-to-be-shown scientist may be good at pragmatics but it is the sensitive—even poetic—scientist who is really able to reach out and explore the unexplorable.
The phlegmatic, has-to-be-shown scientist may be good at pragmatics but it is the sensitiveeven poeticscientist who is really able to reach out and explore the unexplorable.
As it was, it treed me for three days, which did my figure good and gave me time to think over the philosophy, ethics, and pragmatics of self-preservation.
As it was, it treed me for three days, which did my figure good and gave me time to think over the philosophy, ethics, and pragmatics of selfpreservation.