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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 use
Familiarity information: PRAGMATICS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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