The Problem of Meaning and Communication in Linguistics and the Roots of its Misunderstanding Cover Image

Значение и коммуникация как лингвистическая проблема и корни ее непонимания
The Problem of Meaning and Communication in Linguistics and the Roots of its Misunderstanding

Author(s): Aleksandr Kravčenko
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie

Summary/Abstract: Arguments are given for a necessity to abandon the code model and ‘container’ metaphor in the study of linguistic meaning and communication; as they don’t take into account the true nature of meaning and communication, these methodological premises of conventional linguistics are empirically inadequate and impede its further development.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: XIII
  • Page Range: 91-104
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian