What Do We Talk About When We Talk?
Author： Johan van der Auwera
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 1981
E-ISBN: 9789027280824
Subject： B842.5 言语与思维
Language： ENG
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Description
This monograph deals with the ‘aboutness’ of language. First, the sense in which language ‘is about’ or ‘reflects’ both reality and a mental picture of reality is turned into a cornerstone of a reflectionist or ‘Speculative Grammarian’ semantics and pragmatics. Second, the ‘Speculative Grammar’ idea is made concrete in a logico-linguistic account of the way language ‘is about’ the whole of reality as well as about certain fractions of it. Third, the reflectionist perspective is used for a universalist account of the way speech acts ‘are about’ their subjects, topics, and foci.