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Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

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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' expressions but, although and even if.

Author Biography:

CORINNE ITEN completed her PhD at University College London. She has since held post-doctoral positions at UCL and Carleton University, Ottawa.
Release date NZ
May 13th, 2005
Author
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
  • Undergraduate
Contributor
  • Edited by Kenneth A. Loparo
Illustrations
XII, 266 p.
Pages
266
Dimensions
140x216x20
ISBN-13
9780333995730
Product ID
5888217

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