pragmaticsnoun [ U ]
uk/præɡˈmæt.ɪks//præɡˈmæt̬.ɪks/specializedthe study of how language is affected by the situation in which it is used, of how language is used to get things or perform actions, and of how words can express things that are different from what they appear to mean
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Ways of speaking
- accent
- accentuate
- aitch
- asperity
- BBC English
- cut glass
- dialect
- enunciate
- get your tongue around/round sth idiom
- lenis
- modulate
- monotone
- plummy
- prosody
- singsong
- soft-spoken
- speech therapy
- spoken
- stumble
- trip off the tongue idiom
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