Pragmatic adaptation

A pragmatic adaptation is an adaptation of a work from one medium to another where changes are necessary due to what would and wouldn't work in the adaptation process.

Empath: The Luckiest Smurf stories
Pragmatic adaptation is used in relation to characters from the Smurfs cartoon show such as Clockwork Smurf and Wild that are adapted into the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series who are given the ability to speak, whereas in the original versions they mostly spoke in unintelligible sounds.