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81PRAGMATIQUE — La pragmatique, ou comment accommoder les restes: cette formule rejoint l’intuition de Bar Hillel, l’un de ses fondateurs, qui lança de son côté l’expresion de «poubelle pragmatique» pour désigner le dépotoir théorique où l’on pourrait déverser… …
82Critical theory — Sociology …
83Phonological development — Sound is at the beginning of language learning. Children have to learn to distinguish different sounds and to segment the speech stream they are exposed to into units – eventually meaningful units – in order to acquire words and sentences. So, if …
84Sentence function — In linguistics, sentence function refers to a speaker s purpose in uttering a specific sentence; whether a listener is present or not. It answers the question: Why has this been said? The most basic sentence functions in the world s languages… …
85language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… …
86communicatory — adjective able or tending to communicate was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew W.M.Thackeray • Syn: ↑communicative • Ant: ↑uncommunicative (for: ↑communicative) • Simi …
87Fermi paradox — The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations.The extreme age of the universe and its …
88Animal communication — Animal communication, and indeed the understanding of the animal world in general, is a rapidly growing field, and even in the 21st century so far, many prior understandings related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal… …
89Nonverbal communication — is usually understood as the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless (mostly visual) messages. Messages can be communicated through gestures and touch (Haptic communication), by body language or posture, by facial… …
90Performative utterance — The notion of performative utterances was introduced by J. L. Austin. Although he had already used the term in his 1964 paper Other minds , today s usage goes back to his later, remarkedly different exposition of the notion in the 1955 William… …
