On What We Mean

By Arnold J. Chien

Book Overview

In On What We Mean, Arnold Chien discusses the meaning of a speaker, a notion we use in everyday conversation. Speaker's meaning is a fundamental notion of pragmatics, i.e. the study of the relation between words and speakers. Yet everyday speaker's meaning has not been systematically studied in philosophy or linguistics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761824170
• ISBN13: 9780761824176
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"