Linguistic pragmatism and weather reporting /

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-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Semantics. Sociolinguistics. Weather > Social aspects. Semantics Sémantique. Sociolinguistique. Temps (Météorologie) > Aspect social. semantics. sociolinguistics. Linguistics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES. PHILOSOPHY. Sociolinguistics Weather > Social aspects Electronic books.
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