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Meaning and translation in linguistic fieldwork
Studies in Language, 2010This paper is set within the context of semantic typology, focusing on the collection of semantic data during fieldwork on under-described languages. The study explores central issues of meaning and translation through the example of the investigation of the lexical meaning and part of speech of property-denoting expressions in West Chadic languages ...
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Linguistic meaning and language comprehension
Information Processing & Management, 1983Abstract Recent developments in cognitive science are assessed as a challenge to the well established view in philosophy of language and linguistics that meaning is inherent to language and is relatively fixed. It is concluded that the challenge is unsuccessful.
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Linguistic Meaning Meets Linguistic Form
2020This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the logical and cognitive approaches. It brings to light the inadequacies of both frameworks, and argues along with the Columbia School that linguistic semantics must be grounded on the linguistic sign itself and the meaning it conveys ...
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The primary function of linguistic signs is to express and convey meaning, and ultimately to communicate. Hence, it is essential to study the issue of meaning so as to reveal the semiotic, systematic, hierarchical, social, ethnic and other characteristics of language. And any attempt to discern the nature of language and linguistic phenomena by casting
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The primary function of linguistic signs is to express and convey meaning, and ultimately to communicate. Hence, it is essential to study the issue of meaning so as to reveal the semiotic, systematic, hierarchical, social, ethnic and other characteristics of language. And any attempt to discern the nature of language and linguistic phenomena by casting
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The Primitives of Linguistic Meaning
American Anthropologist, 1997Semantics: Primes and Universals. Anna Wierzbicka. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996. 500 pp.
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The Problem of Linguistic Meaning
2009Straightforwardly, language learning would seem to be about matching new forms to old meanings. Learners therefore take the meanings they have already acquired and try to match them to these forms. This learning assumption rests in how all speakers of the world’s languages look out on the same reality with the same mind and will thus break it down into
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The embodiment of linguistic meaning
2012Embodied views of language hold that linguistic meaning is derived from the interaction experience of the listener/speaker and the sensory, motor, and internal states that go along with it. This chapter reviews three kinds of evidence that support such views.
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