metapragmatics

Questions

What does metapragmatics mean?

Language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.

Where does metapragmatics come from?

From meta- + pragmatics; coined by linguistic anthropologist Michael Silverstein (1945–2020).

How to pronounce metapragmatics

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