pragmatic approach
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpragmaticandapproach
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pragmatic
adjective
uk/præɡˈmæt.ɪk/us/præɡˈmæt̬.ɪk/
solving problems in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist now, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas, ...
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approach
noun
uk/əˈprəʊtʃ/us/əˈproʊtʃ/
a way of considering or ...
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Throughout the book the authors take a consistentlypragmaticapproach.
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These findings show that a discoursepragmaticapproachis necessary for a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon of argument omission in child language.
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Apragmaticapproachto valuation that is sometimes taken in a national context is to use nationally averaged per-unit values for everybody.
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Instead, we adopt apragmaticapproach, based upon physical observations of felt behaviour.
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Thepragmaticapproachdoes not fare any better.
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However, the limits of thispragmaticapproachwere evident by the mid-1930s.
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He therefore invokes thepragmaticapproachto account for the gradient properties of meter.
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It argues for an essentiallypragmaticapproachto accent by showing that previous syntactic and argument structural approaches failed to achieve explanatory adequacy.
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We shall therefore take apragmaticapproachto modeling financial markets and start right away with the dynamics of order flows.
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The other two reviews take a morepragmaticapproachto defining mentoring.
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The preamble is quite instructive in itspragmaticapproach: the laws would continue to be valid as long as they were not explicitly declared void.
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In this paper, we adopt a morepragmaticapproach.
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Effect-driven language test development is apragmaticapproachto testing.
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If one takes a slightly morepragmaticapproach, however, the value of cardiac catheterization may be challenged.
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However, many readers will also enjoy thepragmaticapproachapplied to practical subsurface exploration problems.
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This has enabled a number of highlevel views to be taken and apragmaticapproachto minute taking to be developed.
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Most personal accounts, however, reveal apragmaticapproachto friendship which is perhaps a distinctive feature of advanced old age.
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On the other hand, itspragmaticapproachhas the advantage of adding generalizability to the findings.
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A syllogistic reasoning approach might answer "yes" but apragmaticapproachwould not.
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