A. Vdovichenko

Non-Symbolic Psycho-Cognitive States in a Word-Containing Semiotic Act. On Linguistic Pragmatics and the Impossibility of a Word’s “Proper Meaning”. Sign-centrism vs Pragmatic Approach

This article challenges the common belief in linguistics, semiotics, and the philosophy of language that a sign possesses its own content (“meaning”, “sense”, “signified”, etc.). To this end, it examines the division established in linguistic pragmatics between deictic and non-deictic units of language: some lexemes po...