Meaning of pragmatic in English

Examples of pragmatic

pragmatic
This is a detailed and meticulous study, which combines sociolinguistic methodology with a qualitative pragmatics approach.
In such a framework, there would seem to be no reason not to include social meaning along with 'ordinary' semantics and pragmatics.
Pragmatic randomized trial of antenatal intervention to prevent postnatal depression by reducing psychosocial risk factors.
For the most part, these learners took a pragmatic view of notation, viewing it as useful but not crucial.
Such omissions usually happen for pragmatic rather than theoretical reasons.
The pragmatic themes of reevaluation and revision in light of new information are evident in this method.
How to do good things with words : a social pragmatics for survival.
Second, although we are selecting for study children who are regarded as having pragmatic difficulties, the exact nature of those difficulties remains unclear.
However, such utterances occur in restricted pragmatic contexts, which children need to learn.
For all the remaining utterances, three levels of coding were performed : lexical, morphological and pragmatic.
While we preferred the first solution for its elegance, we chose the second for pragmatic reasons.
It also seems that there may be an initial stage during which pragmatic differentiation is not seen in bilingual children.
The second way of examining pragmatic differentiation was to look at the child's use of translation equivalents with each parent.
These findings support the view that children's learning of new word meanings is guided by the pragmatic directions adults offer.
These data support the hypothesis that children as young as two make direct use of pragmatic directions when they learn the meanings of new words.
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Translations of pragmatic

in Chinese (Traditional)
講究實際的,重實效的, 實用主義的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
讲究实际的,重实效的, 实用主义的…
in Spanish
pragmático, Pragmatico…
in Portuguese
pragmático…
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pratik, yararcı, gerçekci…
pragmatique…
pragmatisch…
pragmatický…
pragmatisk, saglig, praktisk…
pragmatik…
เน้นการปฏิบัติ, ในทางปฏิบัติ…
thực dụng…
pragmatyczny, rzeczowy…
pragmatik…
pragmatisch…
pragmatisk…
прагматичний…
практичный, деловой…
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