Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Rhætic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Min.) Same as
rhætic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective linguistics Pertaining to the
rheme .
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Within it Austin distinguished other three: the phonetic act (the act of producing some sounds), the phatic act (the act of uttering some words pertaining to the vocabulary of a certain language organized according to the rules of its grammar), and the rhetic act
Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006
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