Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance
Download or Read eBook Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance PDF written by C. Iten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : C. Iten |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2005-05-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780230503236 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0230503233 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance by : C. Iten
Book excerpt: 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 .
