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This book presents a new logical framework to capture the meaning of sentences in conversation. The traditional approach equates meaning with truth-conditions: to know the meaning of a sentence is to know under which circumstances it is true. The reason for this is that linguistic and philosophical...

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Main Authors: Ciardelli, Ivano (Author), Groenendijk, J. A. G. (Jeroen A. G.) (Author), Roelofsen, Floris (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics ; 6.
Subjects:
Semantics.

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