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Formal communication is the sort of communication used in large organizations; the unit of formal communication is the formal message. Typically, a formal message indicates that it comes from a certain person (in a certain status, at a certain time), to another person (in a certain status, at a certain time), with an aim or point connected with previous messages; it has a body, and perhaps also an interpretation intention that includes a special glossary or other aids to interpreting the body.
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For Tarski’s concatenation theory see ‘The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages’, in Alfred Tarski, Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers from 1923 to 1938 (Oxford 1956).
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Harrah, D. (1971). Formal Message Theory. In: Bar-Hillel, Y. (eds) Pragmatics of Natural Languages. Synthese Library, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1713-8_4
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