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Publication details [#9823]

Wachtel, Tom. 1980. Pragmatic approximations. Journal of Pragmatics 4 (3) : 201–211.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

approximate description | context dependence

Person as a subject

Lakoff, G. | Sadock, J.

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Approximations (such as 'Sam is approximately six feet tall') are treated within a context-sensitive semantics. Earlier proposals by G. Lakoff (1972: 'Hedges') and J.Sadock (1977: 'Truth and approximations') are rejected.

Reviewed by

Channell, Joanna. 1980. More on approximations: A reply to Wachtel.