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Publication details [#1043]

Ballmer, Thomas T. 1979. Context change, truth and competence. In Bäuerle, Rainer, Urs Egli and Arnim Von Stechow, eds. Semantics from different points of view. Springer. pp. 21–31.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

competence vs. performance | context change | functionalism | meaning as truth | truthfulness

Annotation

On the notion of 'context change' as a basic notion of linguistics, and its connection with the instrumental view of the character of language, and its impact on the competence/performance distinction and the truth functional view of semantics and pragmatics.