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Burton-Roberts, Noel. 1987. Pragmatics and Wittgenstein: Ostensive and non-descriptive definition. In Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertucelli-Papi, eds. The pragmatic perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference. John Benjamins. pp. 733–753.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

definition | indirectness | non-descriptive definition | ostensive definition

Person as a subject

Wittgenstein, L.

Annotation

B. suggests that the pragmatics of non-descriptive definition can shed light on ostensive definition. Recent presentations of Wittgenstein on ostensive definition are said to be mistaken.