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 utterance meaning in terms of conventional facts; and, finally, sentence meaning in terms of conventional utterance meaning. Linguistic meaning is seen to be derived from meaningful social behavior rather than from goal-directed behavior of individuals. A number of new results on pragmatic and semantic meaning are reached.
| Author: Eike V. Savigny |
| Publisher: Springer |
| Publication Date: Dec 10, 2011 |
| Number of Pages: 151 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 3642734669 |
| ISBN-13: 9783642734663 |
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