Saturday, February 10, 2007
Pär Segerdahl, Language Use, Ch.9, "Formal Pragmatics"
Language can be represented by a formal system, but that doesn't mean "that actual language use is based on tacit calculations" in the formal system. The meanings of the parts of a sentence play no role in the actual process of the determination of meaning.
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