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Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics ; 3)
Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition - Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics ; 3
Author: David B. Kronenfeld, Oxford University Press
Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says "grab a chair" that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when someone says "let's buy a chair," they won't? In Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers, Kronenfeld offers a theory that explains both the usefulness of language's variability of reference and the mechanis...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195094084
ISBN-10: 0195094085
Publication Date: 3/21/1996
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
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