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Noun

1. 1
   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. uncountable

   "Holonym: linguistics"

2. 2
   plural of pragmatic form-of, plural
3. 3
   the study of language use wordnet

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"Prosody semantics is related to pragmatics."

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