| It's too bad that linguists who study syntax, semantics and pragmatics have not been involved in this enterprise to any significant extent. |
| The claim, of course, was that referential uses of a description are a function of pragmatics, not quantifier scope. |
| On the contrary, syntax is indispensable for a pragmatic language and pragmatics is indispensable for a syntactic language. |
| There's enough fodder for a whole thesis on journalistic pragmatics lurking in those memos. |
| I was taught that semantics is about meaning as something that sentences have, whereas pragmatics is about meaning as something that people do. |
| He focused, so to speak, on the pragmatics of the signifier rather than on the vicissitudes of the signified. |
