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Perspectives on Language
An Introduction
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Abstract
Everybody knows, of course, what language is, what speaking is, what understanding speech is. We know that grammar tells us to talk “correctly.” But—how does language work? How do we operate to get a listener to know what we want him to know? How does language function?
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