Language and the Distortion of Meaning
| By: | Patrick Degramont |
| Publisher: | NYU Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780814718445 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780814744277 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 1992 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Patrick de Gramont draws upon evidence from infant observaton and linguistics as well as from information theory in order to make two related points. First, he demonstrates how our prevailing theories of meaning have failed to account for how we distort meaning.