Meaning and Mental Representations

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Edited by Umberto Eco, Marco Santambrogio and Patrizia Violi

Indiana University Press

Due/Published October 1990, 237 pages, paper

ISBN 0253204968

This is an important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the question of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language. The volume seeks to bridge the gap between the differing traditions of European semiotics and American philosophy of language on the issue of linguistic meaning and mental representation.