Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

Informationen zum Autor CORINNE ITEN completed her PhD at University College London. She has since held post-doctoral positions at UCL and Carleton University, Ottawa. Klappentext 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 . Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Linguistic Meaning and Truth Conditions Approaches to 'Non-Truth-Conditional' Meaning Relevance Theory and 'Non-Truth-Conditional' Meaning Denial, Contrast and Correction: The Meaning of But Concession and Denial: The Meaning of Although Even and Even if Conclusion Notes References

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• Authors: C Iten, C. Iten, Corinne Iten
• Assisted by: Kenneth A Loparo (Editor), Ken Bach (Editor), Kent Bach (Editor), Anne Bezuidenhout (Editor), Anne Bezuidenhout et al (Editor), Richard Breheny (Editor), Sam Glucksberg (Editor), Francesca Happé (Editor), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor), François Recanati (Editor), Deirdre Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349432622
• ISBN: 978-1-349-43262-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; B, Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, Linguistics, general, Language: history & general works, Language and languages—Philosophy, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, interpret;knowledge;play;truth