It is a valuable slogan that to find the meaning of a term, one should not ask about it but observe what people do with it. From the use of the term, as observed in concrete situations, the linguist is believed to «see» what it means or to «infer» its meaning by clear-cut methods.
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(2005). Occurrence Analysis. In: Drengson, A. (eds) The Selected Works of Arne Naess. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4519-6_6
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