The Meaning of Meaning

Japanese: 《The Meaning of Meaning》(英語表記)TheMeaningofMeaning
The Meaning of Meaning

…British psychologist. After graduating from Cambridge University, he published the intellectual magazine Cambridge Magazine and was also a prolific writer. He gradually became interested in linguistic psychology, and in 1923, together with critic IA Richards, he wrote The Meaning of Meaning. This work applied psychological techniques to elucidate the structure of linguistic behavior, and was a pioneering study of today's semantics, which sought to determine the process by which meaning is generated through a detailed analysis of the interactions between the three basic elements that make up linguistic behavior: ideas (references), words (symbols), and things (referents). …

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…イギリスの心理学者。ケンブリッジ大学の出身で,卒業後は知的高級雑誌《ケンブリッジ・マガジン》を主宰するとともに,自らも多彩な著述活動を行っていたが,しだいに言語心理に興味を抱き,1923年,批評家I.A.リチャーズとともに《意味の意味The Meaning of Meaning》を著した。これは心理学的手法を応用して,言語行動の構造を解明しようとしたもので,言語行動を成立させる基本的3要素,すなわち,思想(指示),言葉(象徴),事物(指示物)3者の相互作用の精密な分析から,〈意味〉が生成していく過程を見きわめようとする,今日の意味論の先駆をなす研究であった。…

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