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prægˈmæt ɪksprag·mat·ics
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Princeton's WordNet
pragmaticsnoun
the study of language use
Wiktionary
pragmaticsnoun
The study of the use of language in a social context.
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Pragmatics
In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship between the interpreter and the interpreted. Linguists who specialize in pragmatics are called pragmaticians. The field has been represented since 1986 by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). Pragmatics encompasses phenomena including implicature, speech acts, relevance and conversation, as well as nonverbal communication. Theories of pragmatics go hand-in-hand with theories of semantics, which studies aspects of meaning, and syntax which examines sentence structures, principles, and relationships. The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called pragmatic competence. Pragmatics emerged as its own subfield in the 1950s after the pioneering work of J.L. Austin and Paul Grice.
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pragmatics
Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the interpretation of meaning, including the social rules and conventions underlying language use. It considers factors such as the speaker's intention, the relationship between the speaker and the audience, the information already known by the speakers, and the social and cultural context. Essentially, pragmatics explores how people understand and convey meaning in real-life communication beyond the literal meanings of words and sentences.
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Pragmatics
Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics which 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 philosophy, sociology, linguistics and anthropology. Unlike semantics, which examines meaning that is conventional or "coded" in a given language, pragmatics studies how the transmission of meaning depends not only on structural and linguistic knowledge of the speaker and listener, but also on the context of the utterance, any pre-existing knowledge about those involved, the inferred intent of the speaker, and other factors. In this respect, pragmatics explains how language users are able to overcome apparent ambiguity, since meaning relies on the manner, place, time etc. of an utterance. The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called pragmatic competence.
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The numerical value of pragmatics in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pragmatics in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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