Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance
C Iten author Deirdre Wilson editor Anne Bezuidenhout editor Richard Breheny editor Sam Glucksberg editor Francesca Happé editor Kent Bach editor François Recanati editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:13th May '05
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£99.99(9781349432622)
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 .
ISBN: 9780333995730
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 505g
266 pages