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9780521607711

Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers

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    9780521607711

  • ISBN10:

    052160771X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-08-19
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The importance of discourse markers (words like "so," "however," and "well") lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Diane Blakemore asserts that the exercise in classification that has dominated discourse marker research should be replaced by the investigation of the way in which linguistic expressions contribute to the inferential processes involved in utterance understanding.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1(11)
1 Meaning and truth 12(20)
2 Non-truth conditional meaning 32(27)
3 Relevance and meaning 59(30)
4 Procedural meaning 89(60)
5 Relevance and discourse 149(35)
Conclusion 184(2)
Bibliography 186(7)
Indexes 193

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