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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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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance
Authors: Corinne Iten
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503236
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-99573-0Published: 13 May 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43262-2Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50323-6Published: 13 May 2005
Series ISSN: 2946-2576
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2584
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 266