Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

C. Iten (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2005
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-99573-0 (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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.5.2005
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
Zusatzinfo	XII, 266 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-333-99573-2 / 0333995732
ISBN-13	978-0-333-99573-0 / 9780333995730
Zustand	Neuware