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Publication details [#7436]

Pateman, Trevor A. 1983. What is language? Language & Communication 3 (2) : 101–127.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language | social context

Journal WWW

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Annotation

P. considers some possible answers to the question 'what is a language?', and argues for the answer that a language is a social fact, although that social fact is not a linguistic fact.