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This essay contains material which will hopefully be of interest not only to philosophers, but also to those social scientists whose research concerns the analysis of communication, verbal or non-verbal. Although most of the topics taken up here are central to issues in the philosophy of language, they are, in my opinion, indistinguishable from topics in descriptive social psychology. The essay aims to provide a conceptual framework within which various key aspects of communication can be described, and it presents a formal language, using techniques from modern modal logic, in which such descriptions can themselves be formulated. It is my hope that this framework, or part of it, might also turn out to be of value in future empirical work.
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© 1983 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Jones, A.J.I. (1983). Introduction. In: Communication and Meaning. Synthese Library, vol 168. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7069-4_1
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