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Bainbridge, W.S. 1998. General Semantics. In Mey, Jacob L. The concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Elsevier. pp. 325–326.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

general semantics | pragmatics

Annotation

"Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics" entry on the (pseudo)branch of science called General Semantics, which claimed that social ills resulted from errors in language use.