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Thompson, Wayne N. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1971
Author notes that semantics, originally designed as non-Aristotelian discipline, has become anti-Aristotelian. He outlines six significant areas in which almost no difference can be found between Greek philosopher's ideas and those of modern semanticists; for example: words are symbols, not things; meanings lie within persons, not words. (PD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Concept Formation, Individual Differences
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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