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Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

PhilosophyLinguistics

ISBN10: 1349432628
ISBN13: 9781349432622
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 1 2005
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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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