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tātparya

tātparya, 'speaker's intention'; technical grammatical term.

Linguistic Notions

  • Lexical vs Functional Categories
    1. Introduction The distinction between lexical and functional categories is a well-known one in Western linguistics. It is both long-standing (possibly dating back...

Linguistic Fields

  • Pragmatics
    Pragmatics is the study of meaning beyond the literal meaning of words and their composition into phrases and clauses, encompassing in very broad terms much of the ‘use’ of language in the real...
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Lowe, John (2023). 'tātparya'. . First published on 14 Sep 2021. Last updated on 20 Aug 2023.
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