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A man of business.
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A busybody.
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A public decree.
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The study of the use of language in a social context.
Examples of pragmatics in a Sentence
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.
It is shown that in this language family derived voice, i.e. passivization, in fact functions in the domain of discourse pragmatics.
Chapter 1. Introduction The book adopts a sociocultural pragmatics perspective.
She may be delayed in acquiring the vocabulary, syntax, grammar and pragmatics of her age mates.
Some thoughts on teaching pragmatics to undergraduate linguistics students.
In Catalonia " Pragmatics," letters from the prince, issued to restrain jurisdiction assumed by ecclesiastical judges contrary to the customs of the principality.