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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Scary! In a Nice Sense!

From Dale's footnote to ch. ii, online, "Theory of Meaning", quoting form Lady Welby:

"...[Paul] distinguishes between usuelle Bedeutung, the generally accepted meaning of a word, and okkasionelle Bedeutung, the meaning which a speaker attaches to a word at the moment of utterance..." [p. 58].

--- short step to Grice's 'occasion-meaning'. Fome reason, Grice prefers the unidiomatic 'occasion' rather than the perhaps slightly pedantic 'occasional'. Or is it the other way round?

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