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Publication details [#2523]

Dascal, Marcelo. 1981. Contextualism. In Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren, eds. Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. John Benjamins. pp. 153–177.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | literal meaning

Annotation

D. strongly opposes 'contextualism' or the hypostasis of the role of context in the theory of language. He believes that literal or context-free meaning exists.