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pragmatics

branch of linguistics about how context contributes to meaning, studying implicature, speech acts, relevance and conversation
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Summary

pragmatics is a language subsystem[1]. pragmatics draws 3,853 Wikipedia views per month (language subsystem category, ranking #3 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: branch of linguistics[3]
  • Subclass of: linguistics[4]
  • Part of: linguistics[5]
  • Commons category: Pragmatics[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pragmatics[7]
  • Described by source: Soziolinguistika Hiztegia[8], Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[9]
  • Different from: Pragmatyka (prawo)[10]
  • Studied by: sociolinguistics[11]

Why It Matters

pragmatics has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] pragmatics is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Alex Lascarides linguistics Nasir Razzaq sociolinguistics

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1QP1ny
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0204334-pragmatika
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0204334-pragmatika, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → linguistics
    Instance of → —
    Different from → Pragmatyka (prawo)
    Aliases → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 7830, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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