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  2. Pragmatics - Wikipedia

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    For example, the study of code switching directly relates to pragmatics, since a switch in code effects a shift in pragmatic force. [ 23 ] According to Charles W. Morris , pragmatics tries to understand the relationship between signs and their users, while semantics tends to focus on the actual objects or ideas to which a word refers, and ...

  3. Pragmatism - Wikipedia

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    An anthology published by the MIT Press titled Pragmatic Bioethics included the responses of philosophers to that debate, including Micah Hester, Griffin Trotter and others many of whom developed their own theories based on the work of Dewey, Peirce, Royce and others. Lachs developed several applications of pragmatism to bioethics independent ...

  4. Pragmaticism - Wikipedia

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    Here he introduces that which he later called the pragmatic maxim. By way of example of how to clarify conceptions, he addressed conceptions about truth and the real as questions of the presuppositions of reasoning in general. To reason is to presuppose (and at least to hope), as a principle of the reasoner's self-regulation, that the truth is ...

  5. Scalar implicature - Wikipedia

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    In pragmatics, scalar implicature, or quantity implicature, [1] is an implicature that attributes an implicit meaning beyond the explicit or literal meaning of an utterance, and which suggests that the utterer had a reason for not using a more informative or stronger term on the same scale. The choice of the weaker characterization suggests ...

  6. Category:Pragmatics - Wikipedia

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    Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics. It is the study of how context influences the interpretation of meaning. It is the study of how context influences the interpretation of meaning. Context here must be interpreted as situation as it may include any imaginable extralinguistic factor.

  7. Pragmatic theory of information - Wikipedia

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    The pragmatic theory of information is derived from Charles Sanders Peirce's general theory of signs and inquiry. Peirce explored a number of ideas about information throughout his career. Peirce explored a number of ideas about information throughout his career.

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  9. Relevance theory - Wikipedia

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    Examples for the latter are loose language use (saying "I earn €2000 a month" when one really earns €1997.32), hyperbole, and metaphor. In other words, relevance theory views figurative language, just as literal language, as a description of an actual state of affairs (path (c) in the diagram), the only difference being the extent to which ...