Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance e-bog
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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' ex...
E-bog
875,33 DKK
Forlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Udgivet
13 maj 2005
Genrer
Linguistics
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780230503236
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 .