| The claim, of course, was that referential uses of a description are a function of pragmatics, not quantifier scope. |
| There's enough fodder for a whole thesis on journalistic pragmatics lurking in those memos. |
| Recent studies of the pragmatics of politeness have drawn on conversational data. |
| What differs, I submit, is not the semantics, but the pragmatics. |
| And the Germans are hard working, conscientious, trying hard to be principled pragmatics, wearing history heavily on their shoulder. |
| Infants begin by babbling and cooing, progress to holophrasis and by age three to four children are working on semantics and pragmatics. |
