Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

Iten, C.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-05-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333995730

DOI: 10.1057/9780230503236

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 266