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There are four parts to the meaning of a word or lexical item. They are, what I choose to call, the tag, category, significance, and context.
…Here we see a semantics which not only drains the concept of ‘truth’ of any moral content but divorces statements from their communicational context altogether.
(Roy Harris, General Linguistics, 1987:159)
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Cory, G.A. (2000). Value, Context, and the Origin of Meaning: Spoken vs. Written Language. In: Toward Consilience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4271-1_18
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