柯林斯詞典pragmatics /pr?ɡ?m?t?ks/ 1. N-SING Pragmatics is the branch of linguistics that deals with the meanings and effects that come from the use of language in particular situations. 語用學(xué) 返回 pragmatics劍橋詞典the study of how language is affected by the situation in which it is used, of how language is used to get things or perform actions , and of how words can express things that are different from what they appear to mean 語用論,語用學(xué) 返回 pragmatics