Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance
Description
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 .
Keywords
PhilosophyReferenceLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsLanguage
2005Book
Author(s)Corinne Iten
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333995730
LanguageEnglish
