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Publication details [#14346]

Chapman, Siobhan. 2001. In defence of a code: Linguistic meaning and propositionality in verbal communication. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (10) : 1553–1570.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
code | implicature | integrationism | ordinary language philosophy | pragmatics | proposition | relevance | semantics2 | truth condition
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

On the role linguistic encoding plays in speaker meaning: Grice's, Strawson's and more contemporary accounts of linguistic code are discussed. Despite counterarguments claiming that encoded meaning cannot be propositional, this article claims the opposite on the basis of thruth-conditionally defined propositions.