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This book set out to investigate whether it is plausible and necessary to posit the existence of specifically linguistic semantics. I argued that the notion of linguistic semantics, as well as the cognitive process of deterministic decoding of such content, is implausible and unnecessary to account for meaning in language. I then explored the consequences of this claim for a theory of meaning and utterance interpretation.
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Sztencel, M. (2018). Conclusion. In: Semantics, Pragmatics and Meaning Revisited. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69116-9_7
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