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Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance
Iten, Corinne. Ed(S): Breheny, Richard; Bach, Kent; Bezuidenhout, Anne; Glucksberg, Sam; Happe, Francesca; Recanati, Francois; Wilson, Deirdre
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paperback. Editor(s): Breheny, Richard; Bach, Kent; Bezuidenhout, Anne; Glucksberg, Sam; Happe, Francesca; Recanati, Francois; Wilson, Deirdre. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
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 .
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 .
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
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New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349432622
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V9781349432622
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About Iten, Corinne. Ed(S): Breheny, Richard; Bach, Kent; Bezuidenhout, Anne; Glucksberg, Sam; Happe, Francesca; Recanati, Francois; Wilson, Deirdre
CORINNE ITEN completed her PhD at University College London. She has since held post-doctoral positions at UCL and Carleton University, Ottawa.
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