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Evidentials and relevance /
This book uses Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory to show how evidential expressions can be analysed in a unified semantic/pragmatic framework. The first part surveys general linguistic work on evidentials, presents speech-act theory and examines Grice's theory of meaning and communicat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 86. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book uses Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory to show how evidential expressions can be analysed in a unified semantic/pragmatic framework. The first part surveys general linguistic work on evidentials, presents speech-act theory and examines Grice's theory of meaning and communication with emphasis on three main issues: for linguistically encoded evidentials, are they truth-conditional or non-truth-conditional, and do they contribute to explicit or implicit communication? For pragmatically inferred evidentials, is there a pragmatic framework in which they can be adequately accounted fo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027297433 9027297436 9781588110329 158811032X 9789027251053 9027251053 128216189X 9781282161894 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |