The Basis of Semantic Structure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9688250 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Beebe (University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 624-641 |
| Publication date | 1976-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300037471 |
| OpenAlex | W2167936336 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The Concept of the whole utterance, we are inclined to to believe, is basic in meaning-theory. But any theory which locates a conceptual base must show how items in the super-structure relate to that base, and so for theories of meaning. There are units of meaning both larger and smaller than whole utterances: narrative, in which several whole utterances follow one another in some organized fashion, seems relatively unproblematic, but the relations of meaningful parts of utterances to the utterances themselves remains unclear. Grice's theory of meaning secures the logical priority of whole utterances, and in addition, lends itself to an attractive and theoretically fruitful view of the relations between whole utterances and their meaningful parts; or so I shall try to demonstrate
Basis (linear algebra) · Conjunction (astronomy) · Epistemology · Grice · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Narrative · Pragmatics · Utterance · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · linguistics and terminology studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Semantic Web and Ontologies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |