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Publication details [#25500]

Weigand, Edda. 1993. Word meaning and utterance meaning. Journal of Pragmatics 20 (3) : 253–268.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

speech act theory | utterance meaning | word meaning

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the controversy whether speech act (theory) can be used to explain word meaning in the light of an action-oriented theory of language, analyzing an example by Strawson.