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Publication details [#20666]

Pateman, Trevor. 1986. What is English if not a language? In Johansen, Jorgen Dines and Harly Sonde, eds. Pragmatics and linguistics: Festschrift for Jacob L.Mey. Odense UP. pp. 137–1403.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

interaction structure

Annotation

An epistemological discussion of the relationship between speaking a language and one's beliefs about speaking this language; i.e. of the intersubjective character of criteria for defining a language.