What does «pragmática» mean in Spanish?
- This law differed from the general orders and royal decrees in its publication formulas.
- The branch of linguistics concerned with language in use or the study of meaning as it arises from language occurring in context. Pragmatics does not examine the relationship between the word and its definition or meaning (the domain of semantics) but the relationships between words and the entities (real-world or otherwise) to which those words refer (referents or discourse entities). Moreover, the linguist working in pragmatics tries to account for expressions in terms of the meaning intended by the speaker and understood by the listener. Thus, for example, in semantics the expression "I just got out of bed" would be analyzed in terms of the meanings of the individual words as they occur in syntactic relation to each other ("I" = first person pronoun, in subject position; "I just" = conjugated verb indicating action; etc.). In pragmatics, the utterance would be evaluated in terms of its context. What particular person is the speaker ("I")? What does he intend the listener to understand from his utterance? (Perhaps the speaker is rejecting an offer to go to the mall. None of the words uttered have the meaning "decline the offer" or "mall," but in context the utterance would communicate that information - in addition to communicating the merely semantic meaning of the sentence.)