Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance
C Iten author Deirdre Wilson editor Anne Bezuidenhout editor Richard Breheny editor Sam Glucksberg editor Francesca Happé editor Kent Bach editor Francois Recanati editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:1st Jan '05
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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 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 .
ISBN: 9781349432622
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
266 pages
1st ed. 2005