pragmatics
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[edit]pragmatics (uncountable)
- (linguistics, translation studies) The study of the use of language, especially meaning, in a social context; it includes extratextual aspects of language including exophoric reference, phatic utterances, and nonverbal channels.
- Holonym: linguistics
- Comeronyms: semantics; grammar, syntax, morphology, phonology
- 2001, Arthur J. Holmer, Jan-Olof Svantesson, Åke Viberg, Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics:
- […] in the clause, only the adjective may be fronted; but if both a past participle and a verbal particle are present, either may be fronted. Topicalization, in which maximal projections are fronted to express pragmatics such as contrast, emphasis, […]
- 2025 August 28, John McWhorter, “The Single Word That Explains Why Chatbots Sound So Human”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- The conversational tone is almost uncanny. But it’s not a sign that large language models are becoming human; it’s a sign that they have mastered pragmatics. […] When a computational linguist told me several years ago about the advances artificial intelligence was making in simulating human language, the first thing I thought was: The hot next step will be getting to pragmatics.
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[edit]study of the use of the language in a social context
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