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Paperback Language Turned on Itself: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse Book

ISBN: 0199575525

ISBN13: 9780199575527

Language Turned on Itself: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse

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Language Turned on Itself examines what happens when language becomes self-reflexive; when language is used to talk about language. Those who think, talk, and write about language are habitual users of various metalinguistic devices, but reliance on these devices begins early: kids are told, 'That's called a "rabbit"'. It's not implausible that a primitive capacity for the meta-linguistic kicks in at the beginning stages of language acquisition. But...

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