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Linguistic pragmatism and weather reporting /

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Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties themselves mandate. In this book, John Collins provides a novel defence of this doctrine, arguing that linguistic meaning alone fails to fix truth conditions. While this position is...

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Main Author: Collins, John, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Semantics.
Sociolinguistics.
Weather > Social aspects.

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