Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance : The Case of Concessives /

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 su...

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Main Author:	Iten, Corinne (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Series:	Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language, and cognition.
Subjects:	Philosophy. Linguistics, general. Philosophy of Language. Language and languages > Philosophy. Linguistics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	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 .
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (XII, 266 pages)
ISBN:	9780230503236
DOI:	10.1057/9780230503236