Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

C. Iten (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2005 | 1st ed. 2005
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-43262-2 (ISBN)

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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 .

CORINNE ITEN completed her PhD at University College London. She has since held post-doctoral positions at UCL and Carleton University, Ottawa.

Acknowledgements Linguistic Meaning and Truth Conditions Approaches to 'Non-Truth-Conditional' Meaning Relevance Theory and 'Non-Truth-Conditional' Meaning Denial, Contrast and Correction: The Meaning of But Concession and Denial: The Meaning of Although Even and Even if Conclusion Notes References

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
Zusatzinfo	XII, 266 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Interpret • Knowledge • Play • Truth
ISBN-10	1-349-43262-8 / 1349432628
ISBN-13	978-1-349-43262-2 / 9781349432622
Zustand	Neuware