The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

Rudolf Carnap offered a definition of “pragmatics” following “syntactics” and “semantics” in order to show the relationship of formal logic to empirical and psychological aspects of meaning, as well as to distin - guish all three.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRAGMATISM] Reference

Semiotic or semiotics: paraphrasing here from the Greek semeiotikos observant of signs, from semeiousthai to interpret signs, from semeion sign; akin to Greek semu sign - more at SEMANTIC: a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals esp. with their function in both artifically constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

Altruistic professors are teaching things like syntactics, synonymy, syncretism, and synergism.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1] Reference

How would it mean anything for you, or me, to say "Oh, that's just syntactics, or pragmatics?" These ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Future Changes] Reference