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Givón, Talmy. 1989. Mind, code and context: Essays in pragmatics. Erlbaum. xviii + 456 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
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This collection of essays in pragmatics deals with the 12 following issues: categories and prototypes between Plato and Wittgenstein; the linguistic code and iconicity of grammar; propositional modalities: truth, certainty, intent and information; the pragmatics of reference: existence, referential intent, and thematic import; the pragmatics of anaphoric reference: definiteness and topicality; modes of knowledge and modes of processing: the routinization of behavior and information; fact, logic and method: the pragmatics of science; language, culture and translation; adaptive behavior, group variability and the genetic code: the pragmatics of evolutionary change; and the mysticist as pragmatist: Lao Tse and Taoism.

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