Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance |
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| Author:
| Iten, C. |
| Editor:
| Breheny, Richard
Bach, Kent
Bezuidenhout, Anne
Glucksberg, Sam
Happé, Francesca
Recanati, François
Wilson, Deirdre |
| Series title: | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-349-43262-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $139.99USD $139.99USD $109.99 |
Book Description:
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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 .
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 .