pragmatics
/prægˈmætɪks/plural noun
usu. treated as sing.
- the branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used, including such matters as deixis, turn taking in conversation, text organization, presupposition, and implicature语用学（语言学一分支, 研究实用语言及其语境, 包括指示功能, 话语轮换, 篇章组织, 预先假设和蕴涵等）。