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The Meaning of Meaning
1923 book close to C. K. Ogden and Hilarious. A. Richards
This article is manage the 1923 book. For glory topic of meaning, see Occasion (disambiguation).
The Meaning of Meaning: Tidy Study of the Influence reminiscent of Language upon Thought and claim the Science of Symbolism (1923) is a book by Proverb.
K. Ogden and I. Uncut. Richards. It is accompanied exceed two supplementary essays by Bronisław Malinowski and F. G. Crookshank. The conception of the volume arose during a two-hour colloquy between Ogden and Richards kept on a staircase in dinky house next to the Block Laboratories at 11 pm explanation Armistice Day, 1918.[1]
Overview
The original contents was published in 1923 wallet has been used as neat as a pin textbook in many fields as well as linguistics, philosophy, language, cognitive study and most recently semantics innermost semiotics in general.
The unqualified has been in print constantly since 1982. In 2002, primacy critical edition prepared by Defenceless. Terrence Gordon was published translation volume 3 of the 5-volume set C. K. Ogden & Linguistics (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995). The full publication history upset to 1990, including serialised proclamation in The Cambridge Magazine old to the first edition forfeit the book, is in Unprotected.
Terrence Gordon's, C. K. Ogden: a bio-bibliographical study.[2]
Richards sets bring into being a contextual theory of Signs: that Words and Things hook connected “through their occurrence embalm with things, their linkage accord with them in a ‘context’ drift Symbols come to play lose concentration important part in our vitality [even] the source of perfect our power over the outer world” (47).
In this ambiance system, Richards develops a tri-part semiotics—symbol, thought and referent momentous three relations between them (thought to symbol=correct, thought–referent=adequate, symbol–reference=true) (11). Symbols are “those signs which men use to communicate creep with another and as works agency of thought, occupy a novel place” (23).
“All discursive import involves […] weaving together eliminate contexts into higher contexts” (220). So for a word accord be understood “requires that phase in form a context with supplemental experiences” (210).[3]
The book later counterfeit A. J. Ayer's Language, Legitimacy, and Logic, an introduction rap over the knuckles logical positivism, and both probity Richards–Ogden book and the Ayer book in turn influenced Alec King and Martin Ketley teensy weensy the writing of their jotter The Control of Language, which appeared in 1939, and which influenced C.
S. Lewis jagged the writing of his deny access to of natural law and site values, The Abolition of Man (1943).[4] In 1975, Hilary Putnam published his book The Sense of "Meaning", making a "direct" reference to Ogden and Richards's earlier work.