Names, Descriptions, and Pragmatics. Technical Report No. 7 [electronic resource] / Andrew Ortony.

Questions of reference, which occur in those situations in which the function or meaning of a name or description is at issue, cannot be answered by a purely semantic theory but need to be supported by aspects of a theory of pragmatics. This report investigates the implications of direct and indirec...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Ortony, Andrew
Corporate Author:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1976.
Subjects:	Communication (Thought Transfer) Language Patterns. Language Usage. Linguistic Theory. Linguistics. Pragmatics. Semantics. Speech. Speech Evaluation.