Lexicology vs Pragmatic - What's the difference?
lexicology | pragmatic |
(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
* 1949 Journal of Theological Studies
(countable) A specific theory concerning the lexicon.
Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
* The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic , but unattractive.
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philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
* Sir W. Hamilton
* M. Arnold
As a noun lexicology
is (uncountable|linguistics) the part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.As an adjective pragmatic is
practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.lexicology
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(wikipedia lexicology)Noun
- The fifth is devoted to doctrine; the sixth and seventh to remarks on syntax and lexicology respectively.
Derived terms
* lexicological * lexicologically * lexicologistSee also
* semanticspragmatic
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Alternative forms
* pragmatick (archaic) * pragmatique (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Nor indeed are these restrictions pragmatic'' in nature: i.e. the ill-formedness of the ''heed''-sentences in (60) is entirely different in kind from the oddity of sentences like:
(61) !That man will eat any car which thinks he?s stupid
which is purely ''pragmatic (i.e. lies in the fact that (61) describes the kind of bizarre situation which just doesn?t happen in the world we are familiar with, where cars don?t think, and people don?t eat cars).
- Pragmatic history.
- Pragmatic poetry.