pragmatic
adjective
uk
C2
In business, the pragmatic approach to problems is often more successful than an idealistic one.
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Meaning of pragmatic in English
pragmatic | American Dictionary
pragmatic
adjective
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Examples of pragmatic
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This is a detailed and meticulous study, which combines sociolinguistic methodology with a qualitative pragmatics approach.
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In such a framework, there would seem to be no reason not to include social meaning along with 'ordinary' semantics and pragmatics.
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Pragmatic randomized trial of antenatal intervention to prevent postnatal depression by reducing psychosocial risk factors.
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For the most part, these learners took a pragmatic view of notation, viewing it as useful but not crucial.
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Such omissions usually happen for pragmatic rather than theoretical reasons.
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The pragmatic themes of reevaluation and revision in light of new information are evident in this method.
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How to do good things with words : a social pragmatics for survival.
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Second, although we are selecting for study children who are regarded as having pragmatic difficulties, the exact nature of those difficulties remains unclear.
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However, such utterances occur in restricted pragmatic contexts, which children need to learn.
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For all the remaining utterances, three levels of coding were performed : lexical, morphological and pragmatic.
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While we preferred the first solution for its elegance, we chose the second for pragmatic reasons.
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It also seems that there may be an initial stage during which pragmatic differentiation is not seen in bilingual children.
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The second way of examining pragmatic differentiation was to look at the child's use of translation equivalents with each parent.
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These findings support the view that children's learning of new word meanings is guided by the pragmatic directions adults offer.
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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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