Concept information
Preferred term
pragmatics
Definition
- The study of the practical aspects of human action and thought and the study of the use of linguistic signs, words and sentences, in actual situations. (Based on What is pragmatics?, Centre for Linguistic Research, University of Sheffield)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- argumentation
- cohesion
- communicative failure
- continuous speech
- conversational implicature
- deictic
- deixis
- denomination
- dialogism
- dialogue act
- dialogue context
- dialogue history
- dialogue management
- direct speech
- discourse relation
- discourse strategy
- discourse structure
- discourse theme
- disfluencie
- elicitation
- elocution
- formal address
- free indirect speech
- gestural communication
- indirect speech
- inference
- informal address
- informativeness
- intension
- interlocutor
- monologue
- narration
- oral communication
- performative
- persuasion
- point of view
- polarity item
- politeness strategy
- polyphony
- presupposed
- presupposition
- prominence
- prose
- reported speech
- rhetoric
- saliency
- speaker attitude
- speech act theory
- speech turn
- spontaneous speech
- stylistic variation
- theory of enunciative operations
- turn-taking organization
- universe of discourse
- utterance
- utterer's perspective
- verse
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/8LP-NM07JGRH-P
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