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Silverstein, Michael. 1995. From the meaning of meaning to the empires of the mind: Ogden's orthological English. Pragmatics 5 (2) : 185–195.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropological linguistics | language processing | meaning

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper examines the Ogden-Richards creation of BASIC English (British-American-International-Commercial) as an example of the location of language as a phenomenon in the 1930-1950 Anglo-American sociocultural realm and of the location of social rights legitimazing language construals.