Definitions for pragmatics

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pragmatics prag·mat·ics

Spelling: [prag-mat-iks]

IPA: /prægˈmæt ɪks/

Pragmatics is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 775 anagrams from letters in pragmatics (aacgimprst).

Definitions for pragmatics

noun

1. Logic, Philosophy. the branch of semiotics dealing with the causal and other relations between words, expressions, or symbols and their users.
2. Linguistics. the analysis of language in terms of the situational context within which utterances are made, including the knowledge and beliefs of the speaker and the relation between speaker and listener.
3. practical considerations.
4. pragmatic sanction.
5. Archaic. an officious or meddlesome person.

adjective

1. of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
2. Philosophy. of or relating to pragmatism (def 2).
3. of or relating to pragmatics (def 1, 2).
4. treating historical phenomena with special reference to their causes, antecedent conditions, and results.
5. of or relating to the affairs of state or community.
6. Archaic. busy; active. officious; meddlesome; interfering. dogmatic; opinionated.

Origin of pragmatics

First recorded in 1935-40; See origin at pragmatic, -ics

Examples for pragmatics

It is well justified to repeat that some of the most enlightened minds overlook the pragmatics of bygone practice.

Their past (ontogeny) and present (pragmatics) are involved in these interactions.

We sometimes apply to these the words Orthobiotics, Didactics, and pragmatics.

Whatever the pragmatics affords becomes the new expectation and is projected as the next necessity.

In a way, this threefold sequence shows how syntax is enveloped in semantics, and both in the pragmatics that determines them.

The words "orthobiotics," "didactics," and "pragmatics" might be used to characterize them.

In such situations and locations, the pragmatics of literacy and illiteracy meet and interact.

Our pragmatics is one of process, as the pragmatics of education finally should be.

But what best defines our relation to language is the pragmatics of our existence.

The inertia of past pragmatics has not yet been annihilated by the dynamics of a fundamental change of direction.