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ERIC Number: EJ126050
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1975
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Interpreting Certain Adverbs: Semantics or Pragmatics?
Lehrer, Adrienne
Journal of Linguistics, 11, 2, 239-248, Sep 75
Argues that Charles Morris' division of signs into syntactics, semantics and pragmatics is too rigid. The line between pragmatics and semantics is not sharp, and a language theory is needed that can predict and explain borderline cases without forcing them into arbitrary established categories. (CHK)
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