# Metapragmatics Metapragmatics is the space-time navigational agreement for the networks of agents. In linguistics, metapragmatics is used to describe a function of language that takes its own pragmatics or contextualized indexical functions as its object. The metapragmatic functions allow language to become self-reflexive and they are built into the structure of language. They allow you to build a shared memory with no central coordinator (a global mutable shared state, a one single agent with a global view, etc.), when everything is relative to the speech event, when you need to refer to someone in the past in the future (in a different space-time), and be able to allow multiple agents declare something into existence (a performative). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://glossary.ecsa.io/metapragmatics.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.