Iten / Breheny / Bach Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-230-50323-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iten, C.

Breheny, Richard

Bach, Kent

Bezuidenhout, Anne

Glucksberg, Sam

Happé, Francesca

Recanati, François

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