Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition)
ISBN-13:
9780333995730
ISBN-10:
0333995732
Edition:
2005
Author:
Francesca Happé, Anne Bezuidenhout, C. Iten, Richard Breheny, Kent Bach, Sam Glucksberg, François Recanati, Deirdre Wilson
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Format:
Hardcover
278 pages
Category:
Foreign Language Study & Reference
,
Linguistics
,
Words, Language & Grammar
,
Semantics
,
Reference
,
Philosophy
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ISBN-13:
9780333995730
ISBN-10:
0333995732
Edition:
2005
Author:
Francesca Happé, Anne Bezuidenhout, C. Iten, Richard Breheny, Kent Bach, Sam Glucksberg, François Recanati, Deirdre Wilson
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Format:
Hardcover
278 pages
Category:
Foreign Language Study & Reference
,
Linguistics
,
Words, Language & Grammar
,
Semantics
,
Reference
,
Philosophy
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Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition) (ISBN-13: 9780333995730 and ISBN-10: 0333995732), written by authors
Francesca Happé, Anne Bezuidenhout, C. Iten, Richard Breheny, Kent Bach, Sam Glucksberg, François Recanati, Deirdre Wilson, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2005.
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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 .
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