English Explanatory Dictionary

metapragmatics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

metapragmatics

Etymology

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

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