#65: Language is for Doing with Thomas Holtgraves
Opinion Science
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Pragmatics, Okay?
I'm a social psychologist but really what I am is an experimental, some of you studies pragmatic phenomena and experimentally. So if you look at language as, so if you arbitrarily divide up language, there are roughly the meaning of words,. There are syntax, right? So the rules for combining those items into something meaningful. And but that's not enough, right? Because when we communicate with, with one another, we're obviously communicating a lot more than you get from just looking at semantics and, and syntax. But for me, pragmatics, everything beyond syntax and semantics, The question is, of course, how they, how they interact, right?
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