The Social Foundations of Meaning /

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 u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Savigny, Eike
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1988.
Subjects:	Philosophy (General) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introductory Summary
Conventional Meaning: The Pretheoretical Intuition
Compliance with Rules
A Case for Utterance Meaning: NIVEAU zero
Conventional Utterance Meaning
Against Intentionalism
The Same Case for Sentence Meaning: NIVEAU
Some Results for Sentence Meaning
Epilogue
Appendix I: Complete Description of NIVEAU zero
Appendix II: Complete Description of NIVEAU
Bibliography
Subject Index.