noun plural but singular or plural in construction Date: 1937 a branch of semiotic that deals with the relation between signs or linguistic expressions and their users, a branch of linguistics that is concerned with the relationship of sentences to the environment in which they occur
PRAGMATICS
Meaning of PRAGMATICS in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012