Phenomenological Reviews

Series | Book | Chapter

197583

Perspectives on language

Hans Hörmann

pp. 31-37

Abstract

Everybody knows, of course, what language is, what speaking is, what understanding speech is. We know that grammar tells us to talk "correctly." But—how does language work? How do we operate to get a listener to know what we want him to know? How does language function?

Publication details

Published in:

Hörmann Hans (1986) Meaning and context: an introduction to the psychology of language, ed. Innis Robert. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 31-37

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-0560-4_2

Full citation:

Hörmann Hans (1986) Perspectives on language, In: Meaning and context, Dordrecht, Springer, 31–37.