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Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 1224–1231

Situation semantics

Article outline
  • 1.The efficiency of natural language
  • 2.Meaning as a relation between situations
  • 3.Situation theory
  • 4.Situation semantics
  • 5.Parameters
  • 6.Noun phrases
  • References
Published online: 3 October 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.sit1
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