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Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005) Loot Price: R3,020
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Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005): C. Iten

Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)

C. Iten; Edited by Richard Breheny, Kent Bach, Anne Bezuidenhout, Sam Glucksberg, Francesca Happe, Francois Recanati, Deirdre Wilson

Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

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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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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
Release date: 2005
First published: 2005
Authors: C. Iten
Editors: Richard Breheny • Kent Bach • Anne Bezuidenhout • Sam Glucksberg • Francesca Happe • Francois Recanati • Deirdre Wilson
Dimensions: 203 x 127 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 266
Edition: 1st ed. 2005
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-43262-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
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LSN: 1-349-43262-8
Barcode: 9781349432622

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