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Proposing a new account of the nature of language, the authors deny a direct referential relationship between words & things, but argue for a two-stage link, in which a natural language is understood as a collection of socially devised & maintained practices.Hanna, Patricia is the author of 'Word and World Practice and the Foundations of Language', published 2004 under ISBN 9780521822879 and ISBN 0521822874.
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