Pragmatics Definition

prăg-mătĭks
noun
The branch of linguistics concerned with meaning in context, or the meanings of sentences in terms of the speaker's intentions in using them.
Webster's New World
The study of language as it is used in a social context, including its effect on the interlocutors.
American Heritage
The branch of semiotics dealing with the relationships of signs and symbols to their users.
Webster's New World

Pragmatics Sentence Examples

  • I also have an active interest in cross-cultural pragmatics.

  • It has been accepted in post-Gricean pragmatics that communicators convey more information than is contained in the expressions they utter.

  • T., et al. "The pragmatics of feeding the pediatric patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome."

  • Clearly linguists could develop a model of semantics that included pragmatics.

  • Semantics is sometimes said to be the study of sentence meaning; pragmatics to be the study of utterance meaning.

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