metapragmaticsn.
/ˌmɛtəpraɡˈmatɪks/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛdəˌpræɡˈmædɪks/ Linguistics.
The awareness of a speaker of the pragmatic functions of a speech act.
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1976 E. Bates Lang. & Context v. 122 This..might be termed metapragmatics, an ability to talk about whole speech acts or coordinates of a given speech act... A variety of syntactic devices..will no doubt interact with a number of developmental factors not directly tied to metapragmatics.
1983 Topics in Lang. Disorders Dec. 39/1 Very few studies have explored the metalinguistic awareness of pragmatic knowledge, that is, metapragmatics.
1983 Man 18 785 In other words, the use of language for social purposes implicates the entire linguistic system in that reference, pragmatics and metapragmatics combine to get the job done.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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