“"SIGNIFICS" - OR MENTAL HYGIENE”

—  Colin Cherry

Source: On Human Communication (1957), Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Information, p.219

The first section title of CHAPTER SIX On the Logic of communication (Syntactics, Semantics, and Pragmatics)

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