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Publication details [#797]

Antal, Laszlo. 1961. Sign, meaning, context. Lingua 10 (2) : 211–219.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context dependence | meaning | morpheme | phoneme | sign

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Annotation

A. argues that only the morpheme is a sign, the phoneme being part of a sign and every larger linguistic unit being a sign combination. The paper also touches on a question of the nature of meaning, viz. in how far meaning is dependent on context.