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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of language as it is used in a social context, including its effect on the interlocutors.
- noun The branch of semiotics that deals with the relationship between signs, especially words and other elements of language, and their users.
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- noun linguistics The study of the
use oflanguage in asocial context .
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- noun the study of language use
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Examples
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The valuation of pragmatics is an aesthetic valuation.
Archive 2007-02-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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The valuation of pragmatics is an aesthetic valuation.
The Art of Life Hal Duncan 2007
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We can attribute to the Laozi the next development in Chinese pragmatics of language, how language shapes action.
Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007
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With potentially sensitive words, everything depends on the phonology and the pragmatics - in other words, how they're said and what the intentions are.
Archive 2009-01-01 DC 2009
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With potentially sensitive words, everything depends on the phonology and the pragmatics - in other words, how they're said and what the intentions are.
On insults, or not DC 2009
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My students are always interested in lessons which deal with what linguists call pragmatics †all those things about using a foreign language which go beyond grammar and vocabulary, and have more to do with nuance of meaning, casualness vs. formality, manners, inference, etc.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Teaching Tricks to Sea Lions 2007
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… Considered from the standpoint of their "pragmatics," they are the record of a long and tentative exercise that needed to be revised and corrected again and again.
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Kaplan does not call what he is doing "pragmatics" but the semantics of indexicals and demonstratives.
Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006
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Language is more than words – it’s also pragmatics, which is the cultural context in which our speech acts are framed.
When people insist on "good grammar," why is that grammar always their dialect? - 22 Words 2008
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To the "pragmatics" Haiti's problems have always been it's population and poverty.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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