Adjective

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Part of or similar to rhetoric, which is the use of language as a means to persuade.

A rhetorical question , for example, is one used merely to make a point, with no response expected.

Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument

Adjective

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Of or relating to language.

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, volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}

Of or relating to linguistics.

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We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.

(computing) Relating to a computer language.

* 1993 , Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems , CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-8689-3, page 114:

The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.