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prag·mat·ics

(prăg-măt′ĭks)

n. (used with a sing. verb)

1. The study of language as it is used in a social context, including its effect on the interlocutors.

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

(præɡˈmætɪks)

n (functioning as singular)

1. (Linguistics) the study of those aspects of language that cannot be considered in isolation from its use

2. (Linguistics) the study of the relation between symbols and those who use them

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prag•mat•ics

(prægˈmæt ɪks)

n.

1. (used with a pl. v.) practical considerations.

2. (used with a sing. v.) a branch of semiotics dealing with the causal and other relations between words, expressions, or symbols and their users.

3. (used with a sing. v.) a branch of linguistics dealing with language in its situational context, including the knowledge and beliefs of the speaker and the relationship and interaction between speaker and listener.

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pragmatics - the study of language use

linguistics - the scientific study of language

Translations

pragmatika

pragmatico

pragmatikk

pragmatics

[prægˈmætɪks] NSING → pragmática f
the pragmatics of the job in hand → las tareas prácticas del trabajo a realizar

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pragmatics

[prægˈmætɪks] n → pragmatique f

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When the Inquiring Soul had completed his course of instruction he declared himself the Ahkoond of Swat, fell into the baleful habit of standing on his head, and swore that the mother who bore him was a pragmatic paralogism.

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For all his pragmatic certitude, it seemed as if he watched the play and movement of life in the hope of discovering something more about it, of discerning in its maddest writhings a something which had hitherto escaped him,--the key to its mystery, as it were, which would make all clear and plain.

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"For twenty years past," he says, "I have mistrusted 'consciousness' as an entity; for seven or eight years past I have suggested its non-existence to my students, and tried to give them its pragmatic equivalent in realities of experience.

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One of them--his name was Stick-to-the-right--perceived in my face, I suppose, a species of sympathy and almost admiration, which, to my own great surprise, I could not help feeling for this pragmatic couple.

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Secondary Content: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Side Issues

Keywords: Pragmatics, explicit instruction, business communication, perceptions

Effectiveness of Explicit Pragmatics Instruction in Developing Business Communication Skills: A Study of Teachers' and Students' Perceptions

With the birth of Nigerian Pragmatic Association, pragmatics (study of language use) is no longer an inner-room business of a reclusive underdog in Nigeria; rather, it is a Nigeria-networked discipline with standards consistent with the current-minute standards in the global spread.

Nigerian Pragmatics Association Brainstorms, Grooms Students At Conference

Usually, within the field of pragmatics testing and assessment, isolated aspects of pragmatic competence have been investigated.

Analysis of pragmatic items in an ESL online adaptive placement test

This article will pay especial attention to the truth-conditional pragmatics of Recanati (2010) and the inferential approach to communication of Sperber and Wilson's (2012) relevance theory.

EXPLICIT COMMUNICATION: AN INTEREST AND BELIEF-BASED MODEL

The book here reviewed is a well-expressed, up-to-date and comprehensive description of the concerns of pragmatics. It consists of six chapters, with chapters 2 to 5 each covering a major area of this all-embracing field of linguistics.

PRAGMATICS: COGNITION, CONTEXT AND CULTURE

Instead, research has called for instructors to be intentional about incorporating the teaching of pragmatics into their curriculum (Bardovi-Harlig 2001).

Come si dice? Come si fa?: Incorporating the Teaching and Assessment of Pragmatics into a First-Year University-Level Italian Curriculum

Instructional pragmatics currently lacks evidence-based approaches to teaching pragmatic formulas.