pragmalinguisticadj.
/ˌpraɡməlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌpræɡməˌlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/ Linguistics.
Of or relating to pragmalinguistics or the features of language it studies.
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1978 Language 54 163 [They]..turn immediately to ‘three approaches’ to the analysis of ‘speech situations’—viz.,..(2) the pragmalinguistic approach, [etc.].
1990 Internat. Rev. Appl. Linguistics 28 32 The essential questions are..whether this utterance is a case of pragmalinguistic failure and thus a deviant utterance.
2001 J. Liu Asian Students' Classroom Communication Patterns in U.S. Univ. vi. 229 Actional competence is the matching of communicative intent with linguistic form. It can be conceived of as ‘pragmalinguistic competence’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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