A Concept of General Meaning: Selected Theories in Comparison to Selected Semantic and Pragmatic Theories

Roman Kalisz

doi:10.2478/v10015-012-0024-6

Authors

Roman Kalisz University of Gdańsk

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/v10015-012-0024-6

Keywords:

general meaning, semantics, pragmatics

Abstract

The paper discusses a concept of general meaning with reference to various relevant semantic and pragmatic theories. It includes references to Slavic axiological semantics (e.g. Krzeszowski (1997); Puzynina (1992)), Wierzbicka’s (e.g. 1980, 1987) atomic expressions and classical pragmatics theories, such as speech acts, Gricean theory of conversational implicature, politeness theory and and relevance theory.

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