Publications

Publication details [#3296]

Firth, John Rupert. 1951. Modes of meaning. Essays and Studies 4 : 118–149.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

meaning | metacommunication

Language as a subject

English

Annotation

An attempt to sketch the framework of a language of description in English about English for those who use English, intended to assist us in making statements of meaning.

Reprints

Firth, John Rupert. 1957. In Firth, John Rupert, ed. Papers in linguistics 1934-1951. Oxford University Press. pp. 190–215.