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Linguistic Meaning

By Keith Allan
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By Keith Allan
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Dr Keith Allan presents a coherent, consistent and comprehensive account of linguistic meaning, centred around an informally presented theory of meaning. It is intended for graduate and undergraduate students of linguistics, or any linguist curious about what a theory of meaning should seek to accomplish and the way to achieve that aim.

The work assumes that the primary task of a theory of linguistic meaning is to describe the meaning of speech acts. This in turn presupposes a theory of sema...

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ReferencePhilosophyEnglish Language ReferenceMajor Branches of Philosophical StudyLinguistics & SemioticsEnglish Language Reference - General & MiscellaneousLanguage, Philosophy ofSemanticsPragmatics & Discourse Analysis