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language and analyze only the expressions and their designata, we are in the field of semantics. And if, finally, we abstract from the designata also and analyze only the relations between the expressions, we are in (logical) syntax. The whole science of language, consisting of the three parts mentioned, is called semiotic. (p. 9)
31:) in the development of language, whereby terms become used for concepts further removed from the objects to which they were originally attached. It can also denote a process applied by linguists themselves, whereby phenomena are considered without the details that are not relevant to the desired level of analysis. 142:
If… explicit reference is made to the speaker, or, to put it in more general terms, to the user of a language, then we assign it to the field of pragmatics. (Whether in this case reference to designata is made or not makes no difference for this classification.) If we abstract from the user of the
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For example, the word "book" refers objectively to a physical object constructed with bound pages, but in abstraction refers to a particular literary creation —regardless of how many physical copies of the "book" there are, it is one "book." The word "book" then developed more abstract uses,
49:). Abstraction is common in human language, though it manifests in different ways for different languages. In language acquisition, children typically learn object words first, and then develop from that vocabulary an understanding of the alternate uses of such words. 167:"Syntactics, as the study of the syntactical relations of signs to one another in abstraction from the relations of signs to objects or to interpreters , is the best developed of all the branches of semiotic." (p. 13) 53:
such as in keeping a record (bookkeeping), or to keep a record of betting (booking), or as a verb for entering persons into a record ("to book"). Words may then be further abstracted and even have
101:: and like them, means door, gate, passage. I am persuaded that Door and Through have one and the same Gothic origin dauro, mean one and the same thing, and are in fact one and the same word." 105:
Tooke was incorrect about "through," but his insights about the way words migrated via geography, language, sound change, and meaning were innovative, and fundamentally correct.
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in such a way as to neglect details that cannot serve to differentiate meaning. Other analogous kinds of abstractions (sometimes called "
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The relation between abstraction and Morris' influential trichotomy is a matter of ongoing discussion.
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has also been cashed out in terms of what could be called an "abstraction hierarchy." For instance,
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A related statement was made a few years earlier by Carnap's fellow American philosopher
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Use of terms for concepts removed from the objects to which they were originally attached
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A kind of abstraction commonly considered in linguistics is the
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linguistics
abstraction
grammaticalisation
embedded puns
John Horne Tooke
conversational
The Diversions of Purley
through
sound change
derivation
Gothic
syntax
semantics
pragmatics
Rudolf Carnap
Charles W. Morris
George Herbert Mead
semiotics
Charles Sanders Peirce
phoneme
speech sounds
emic units
morphemes
graphemes
lexemes
Chomsky
BBC
John McWhorter
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