Look up: pragmatics

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   pragmatics
   [n] - the study of language use
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   Pragmatics
   The science of communicational motivation, that is to say, of the effects that immediate motive, context, and custom have on discourse. [For further details see the longer entry under the same heading in our Psycholinguistics Glossary.]
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   Pragmatics
   (Pragmatics (pragmatic)) Pragmatics is the study of 'inferred' meaning. We often say one thing and while we do not exactly mean another thing, we do mean to imply some extra 'force' to be recognised within some of the words we use. This 'force' is called the 'pragmatic force' of an utterance. Pragmatics needs a consideration of the social context ...
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   Pragmatics
   Study of language use independent of language structures, rules and principles, which relates to the structure of language and its use.
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   pragmatics
   the branch of semiotics concerned with the relation between signs and their users ( l ) the relationships of characters or groups of characters to their interpretation and use ( 2 ) Category: Documentation and information
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   pragmatics
   A branch of semiotics; the theory that deals with the relation between signs and their users, both senders and receivers. ... Origin: G. Pragmatikos, fr. Pragma, thing done ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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   pragmatics
   noun the study of language use
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   Pragmatics
   `Pragmatics` is the study of the ability of natural language speakers to communicate more than that which is explicitly stated. The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called `pragmatic competence`. An utterance describing pragmatic function is described as metapragmatic. One thing we might add, is that pragmatics deals with the ways we reach our goal in communication. Suppose, a person wanted to ask someone else to stop s...
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   pragmatics
   (from the article `semiotics`) Peirce`s seminal work in the field was anchored in pragmatism and logic. He defined a sign as `something which stands to somebody for something,` and ... ...matters, has been called `pragmatic.` In semiotics, the general theory of language, that part which studies the relation of the us...
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    pragmatics
    pragmatics 1. The branch of linguistics that studies language use rather than language structure. 2. 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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    Pragmatics
    The study of the relations between signs and their interpreters in abstraction from relations to their designata or to other signs. A department of Semiotic (q.v.). -- M.B.
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