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An empirical case study is used here to analyze linguistic meaning as it is embedded in complex social behavior. The whole of a natural signalling system - its nonlinguistic conventions, pragmatics and semantics - is considered. Three sections analyze: the relevant conventional facts; conventional utterance meaning in terms of conventional facts; and, finally, sentence meaning in terms of conventional utterance meaning. Linguistic meaning is seen to be derived from meaningful social behavior rather than from goal-directed behavior of individuals. A number of new results on pragmatic and semantic meaning are reached.
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Book Title: The Social Foundations of Meaning
Authors: Eike Savigny
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73464-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-73466-3Published: 10 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-73464-9Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 151
Topics: Psychology, general