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Publication details [#45803]

Isermann, Michael. 2007. George Berkeley’s language of vision and the occult tradition of linguistic Platonism Part I: Linguistic Platonism in the Renaissance. Language & Communication 27 (4) : 369–395.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | function | language for special purposes | language theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Departing from George Berkeley's language theory, this paper argues that occult linguistic thought such as ‘linguistic Platonism’ has fulfilled an important role in the formation of all modern language theories that accept both a cognitive and a communicative language function.