Pragmatics

noun

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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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