Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

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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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Name in long format: Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora Volume 1: Synchronic Databases
ISBN-10: 0230503233
ISBN-13: 9780230503236
Book pages: 408
Book language: English
Edition: 1
Binding: eBook
Publisher: Springer Nature
Dimensions: eBook

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