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Publication details [#7526]
Perridon, Harry. 1981. Linguistics as economics: The case of the commercial event in Swedish. Linguistics in the Netherlands 1981 : 193–202.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Journal WWW
Annotation
P. claims that any serious theory of meaning must take its starting point in the social production of meaning. Some occurrences of the Swedish verbs 'köpa' (to buy) and 'sälja' (to sell) are analyzed.