7149934
9780198244813
What is it for marks or sounds to have meaning, and what is it for someone to mean something in producing them? Answering these and related questions, Schiffer explores communication, speech acts, convention, and the meaning of linguistic items in this reissue of a seminal work on the foundations of meaning. A new introduction takes account of recent developments and places his theory in a broader context.Schiffer, Stephen R. is the author of 'Meaning', published 1988 under ISBN 9780198244813 and ISBN 0198244819.
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