empractical
adjEtymology From em- + practical? Coined by Karl Bühler.
1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of or relating to a form of communication that is incidental to some practical activity, characterized by fragmentary utterances and more silence than a conversation.
- A surgeon performing an operation may make empractical utterances to her assistant to request tools, such as "scalpel".
- Related terms
- symphysical, sympractical, synsemantic