Publications

Publication details [#3537]

Friedrich, Paul. 1975. The symbol and its relative non-arbitrariness. In Kinkade, M. Dale, Kenneth L. Hale and Oswald Werner, eds. Linguistics and anthropology: In honor of C.F. Voegelin. P. De Ridder. pp. 15–62.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

arbitrariness | connotation | context | interlocutor | language variety

Annotation

With reference to notions such as context, connotation, user, culturally linked codes, etc., F. argues that, while the position of total arbitrariness in language can be demolished, the valid position that remains is one, not of categorical determinism, but of relative non-arbitrariness.

Reprints

Friedrich, Paul. 1979. In Friedrich, Paul, ed. Language, context, and the imagination. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford UP. pp. 1–61.