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Publication details [#27849]

Gärdenfors, Peter. 1993. The emergence of meaning. Linguistics and Philosophy 16 (3) : 285–309.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

function | language and society | meaning | power | regulative rule

Place, Publisher

Kluwer

ISBN

0165-0157

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This paper argues that social meaning emerges from individual meanings and the nature of linguistic power in society, and that it holds a regulative function for individual assignments of meaning.