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metapragmatics: a standalone construct

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Pragmatics

language and signs that comment on, frame or regulate how language is being used in context, making the pragmatic workings of talk interpretable.

In pragmatics, metapragmatics refers to language and signs that comment on, frame or regulate how language is being used in context, making the pragmatic workings of talk interpretable. This meaning comes from Silverstein (1993) in Reflexive Language.[1]

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being3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs context4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs frame3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Silverstein, M. (1993). Metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function. In Reflexive Language (pp. 33-58). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511621031.004

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