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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ifantidou, Elly
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 86.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
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 ;