Meaning, Discourse, Speech Act

Michael L. Johnson
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Chapter 27 in Mind, Language, Machine, 1988, pp 162-175 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It is obvious by now that there are differences between philosophical and modellist approaches to issues associated with language comprehension, especially that of meaning. Philosophers of language of various persuasions tend to split hairs, sometimes too abstractly; modellers tend to be practical, sometimes too reductively. Both approaches, however, have enlarged understanding of the issue, and their respective ideologies and insights increasingly show patterns of positive interference — as my discussion of Steiner suggests. A survey of other work representative of the two kinds of approaches can make a case for certain syntheses, however tensional, between them that urge a new paradigm for MLM phenomena.

Keywords: Ordinary Language; Definite Article; Semantic Unit; Semiotic Theory; Predicative Function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19404-9_27

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