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Publication details [#11880]
Mey, Jacob L. 1997. The Invisible Man: Of Silence and Comets: Reflections on a Cover Picture. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (3) : 387–392. 6 pp. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
A 19th Century painting by William Dyce is compared to pragmatics, claiming that the discipline exists only as accessible if searched for. The painting also illustrates the tension between pragmatics and life.