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PRAGMATICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pragmatics mean? 

PRAGMATICS (noun)
  The noun PRAGMATICS has 1 sense:

1. the study of language useplay

  Familiarity information: PRAGMATICS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRAGMATICS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The study of language use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pragmatics" is a kind of...):

linguistics (the scientific study of language)


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