Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance (2005) (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition)
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- Synopsis
- The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers' interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic meaning either. The theoretical argument is developed in the first part, while the second part supports it with cognitive relevance-theoretic, rather than truth-based, analyses of the 'concessive' expressions but, although and even if .
- Copyright:
- 2005
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780230503236
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780333995730
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 12/11/20
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Reference, Language Arts, Philosophy
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Richard Breheny
- Edited by:
- Kent Bach
- Edited by:
- Anne Bezuidenhout
- Edited by:
- Sam Glucksberg
- Edited by:
- Francesca Happé
- Edited by:
- François Recanati
- Edited by:
- Deirdre Wilson