Pragmatics, the study of language in context, extends beyond the literal meanings of words to include the subtle inferences that speakers and listeners routinely make. A central phenomenon in this ...

Pragmatics consists of the use of language for a variety of communicative purposes, including requesting, advocating, telling stories, refusing, and making comments. Due to the intersectional nature ...

Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects around two children in each class. It hinders their acquisition and use of ...

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Kolkata: Impairment of language skills can indicate the onset of dementia. Deploying pragmatic tests, along with existing diagnostic checks, might increase the probability of early diagnosis before it ...

Jetbrains, the team behind the popular Java IDE IntelliJ, have released Kotlin 1.0, its homegrown programming language for JVM and Java. The company descries Kotlin as “a pragmatic programming ...

Faced with a moral dilemma, people make more pragmatic, hard-nosed decisions if they're speaking in a language other than their native tongue, says a study in PLOS One. Judgments about right and wrong ...