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Skupien, Janet – Language & Communication, 1997
Presents accounts of theories locating the sources of the signifying capacities of words in their imbrication with nondiscursive structures and practices. Points out that a tradition of philosophical, linguistic, and semiotic theorizing has attempted to clarify what it is for words to have the meanings they do in terms of the relation of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis, Language Research