pragmatics

IPA: prægmˈætɪks

(linguistics, translation studies) The study of the use of language in a social context.

Examples of "pragmatics" in Sentences

The valuation of pragmatics is an aesthetic valuation.
To the "pragmatics" Haiti's problems have always been it's population and poverty.
Kaplan does not call what he is doing "pragmatics" but the semantics of indexicals and demonstratives.
We can attribute to the Laozi the next development in Chinese pragmatics of language, how language shapes action.
Language is more than words – it’s also pragmatics, which is the cultural context in which our speech acts are framed.
With potentially sensitive words, everything depends on the phonology and the pragmatics - in other words, how they're said and what the intentions are.
… Considered from the standpoint of their "pragmatics," they are the record of a long and tentative exercise that needed to be revised and corrected again and again.
My students are always interested in lessons which deal with what linguists call pragmatics â€ all those things about using a foreign language which go beyond grammar and vocabulary, and have more to do with nuance of meaning, casualness vs. formality, manners, inference, etc.