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Publication details [#31947]

Campbell, R.L. and Mark H. Bickhard. 1992. Some foundational questions concerning language studies: With a focus on categorial grammars and model-theoretic possible worlds semantics. Journal of Pragmatics 17 (5-6) : 401–433.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

function | language | meaning | pragmatic interpretation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses incoherences in the logical foundations of standard approaches to language studies. The suggested alternative implies a fundamentally functional, or pragmatic, interactive conception of the nature of language and meaning.