We are taught to think of language as words strung together with grammar. Words evoke specific referents: “apple” refers to ...

Pragmatics, the study of language in context, extends beyond the literal meanings of words to include the subtle inferences that speakers and listeners routinely make. A central phenomenon in this ...

Things become interesting here, because readers might want me to provide examples that will distinguish between an ideal and a pragmatic solution. It’s not going to be as simple as that.

Christopher Kennedy, Louise McNally, Color, context, and compositionality, Synthese, Vol. 174, No. 1, LANGUAGE AND VAGUENESS (May 2010), pp. 79-98 ...

In short, Stainton and his colleagues produced surprising evidence to show that speakers with ASD use and understand pragmatics in cases of literal talk, as in the subway example.

YARON EZRAHI, Utopian and Pragmatic Rationalism : The Political Context of Scientific Advice, Minerva, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 1980), pp. 111-131 ...

Sample sentences have long been a standard feature in many online and offline dictionaries. Starting today, Google Translate will also feature sentences that put translated words into context ...