Pragmatics are defined as:

a) the practical aspects of communicating with others, or the social rules of language.
b) the system of rules that governs how we combine words to form grammatical sentences.
c) the language rules that determine how sounds and words can be combined and used to communicate meaning within a language.
d) the language rules used to solve problems between people.

ANS: A

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