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Boguslawski, Andrzej. 1978. Rules and language. In Loflin, Marvin D. and James Silverberg, eds. Discourse and inference in cognitive anthropology: An approach to psychic unity and enculturation. Mouton. pp. 153–166.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

constitutive vs. regulative rule

Annotation

B. criticizes Searle's distinction between constitutive and regulative rules, and introduces a notion of 'conditional arbitrary limitations of behavior' (which may be semantic and pragmatic, and which govern linguistic activity).