Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

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 .

Author: C. Iten
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/01/2005
Pages: 265
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.46w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780333995730

About the Author
CORINNE ITEN completed her PhD at University College London. She has since held post-doctoral positions at UCL and Carleton University, Ottawa.