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pragmatics Definition

prag·mat·ics (prag mat′iks)

noun

  1. the branch of linguistics concerned with meaning in context, or the meanings of sentences in terms of the speaker's intentions in using them
  2. the branch of semiotics dealing with the relationships of signs and symbols to their users
pragmatics Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • dialog: His current research focuses on interactional issues in various modes of translating, including audience design in translating and the pragmatics of dialog interpreting.
  • language: Axel Simon The semantics and pragmatics of programming languages.
  • communication: Carston, R. ( 2002 ) " Thoughts and utterances: The pragmatics of explicit communication " .
  • discourse: At the moment, I am exploring and writing about the pragmatics of coming-out discourses.

Converse of object

  • include: Clearly linguists could develop a model of semantics that included pragmatics.
  • teach: Some thoughts on teaching pragmatics to undergraduate linguistics students.

Adjective modifier

  • cross-cultural: I also have an active interest in cross-cultural pragmatics.
  • computational: Computational Pragmatics: Human-Machine Dialog My research will be conducted within the nascent field of computational pragmatics.
  • experimental: Experimental pragmatics began in the 1960s; forty years on, this book marks its coming of age.
  • cognitive: Norms and principles: Putting social and cognitive pragmatics together.
  • historical: Discourse markers and topic change: a case study in historical pragmatics.
  • post-gricean: It has been accepted in post-Gricean pragmatics that communicators convey more information than is contained in the expressions they utter.

Modifies a noun

  • research: Finally, we consider methodologies used in pragmatics research.
  • semantics: Research keywords: dialog systems pragmatics semantics [ this is a revised version of my previous entry - some time has passed!
  • interface: Generalized conversational implicatures and the semantics / pragmatics interface.

Noun used with modifier

  • discourse: It is shown that in this language family derived voice, i.e. passivization, in fact functions in the domain of discourse pragmatics.
  • dialog: Research keywords: dialog systems pragmatics semantics [ this is a revised version of my previous entry - some time has passed!
  • system: Research keywords: dialog systems pragmatics semantics [ this is a revised version of my previous entry - some time has passed!