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Linguistic Meaning Meets Linguistic Form

2020
This 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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Embodied experience and linguistic meaning

Brain and Language, 2003
What role does people's embodied experiences have in their use and understanding of meaning? Most theories in cognitive science view meaning in terms of propositional structures that may be combined to form higher-order complexes in representing the meanings of conversations and texts.
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Meaning of Linguistic Signs

2020
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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Linguistic input and early word meaning

Journal of Child Language, 1988
ABSTRACTFour mother–child dyads were videotaped in a longitudinal study of the relationship between linguistic input to children and early lexical development. Diary records were also kept by the mothers and, together with the videorecordings, were used to identify the contexts in which the children produced their first words.
M, Harris, M, Barrett, D, Jones, S, Brookes   +3 more
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On The Autonomy of Linguistic Meaning

SSRN Electronic Journal, 1997
Frege and many following him, such as Dummett, Geach, Stenius and Hare, have envisaged a role for illocutionary force indicators in a logically perspicuous notation. Davidson has denied that such expressions are even possible on the ground that any putative force indicator would be used by actors and jokers to heighten the drama of their performances ...
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Meaning and Linguistic Analysis

Language, 1954
One can point to a variety of quotations from the writings of our American linguists, that seem to substantiate the views that these linguists not only condemn the 'use of meaning' in linguistic analysis (as indicated in the quotation from Carroll), but (as indicated in the quotation from Firth) even refuse to treat 'meaning'.
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Linguistic Meaning

Language, 1988
Adrienne Lehrer, Keith Allan
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Linguistic Meaning, Communicated Meaning and Cognitive Pragmatics

Mind & Language, 2002
Within the philosophy of language, pragmatics has tended to be seen as an adjunct to, and a means of solving problems in, semantics. A cognitive‐scientific conception of pragmatics as a mental processing system responsible for interpreting ostensive communicative stimuli (specifically, verbal utterances) has effected a transformation in the pragmatic ...
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Relevance and Linguistic Meaning

2002
The importance of discourse markers (words like 'so', 'however', and 'well') lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. They are regarded as being central to semantics because they raise problems for standard theories of meaning, and to pragmatics because they ...
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Carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) in the gut microbiome

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022
Jacob F Wardman, Peter Rahfeld, Stephen G Withers   +2 more
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