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metapragmatics

metapragmatics noun: language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.

Noun

metapragmatics (uncountable)

  1. Language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.

Origin of metapragmatics

From meta- + pragmatics; coined by linguistic anthropologist Michael Silverstein (1945–2020).

Questions about metapragmatics

What does metapragmatics mean?
Metapragmatics means language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.
What part of speech is metapragmatics?
Metapragmatics is a noun.

Words near metapragmatics in the dictionary

  1. metapostnotum
  2. metaposts
  3. metapotamal
  4. metapragmatic
  5. metapragmatically
  6. metapragmatics
  7. metaprediction
  8. metapredictions
  9. metapredictor
  10. metapredictors
  11. metaprinciple

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