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Relevance and linguistic meaning : the semantics and pragmatics of discourse markers / Diane Blakemore

Author
Blakemore, Diane
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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1 online resource (viii, 200 pages).
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English.
Contents
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Meaning and truth; 2 Non-truth conditional meaning; 3 Relevance and meaning; 4 Procedural meaning; 5 Relevance and discourse; Conclusion; Bibliography; General index; Name index.
Summary
In this new and important study of the analysis of discourse markers, Diane Blakemore argues 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.
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0511066171 (electronic bk.)
9780511066177 (electronic bk.)
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9780511068300 (electronic bk.)
0511068301 (electronic bk.)
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9780511486456 (ebook)
0511486456
9780521607711 (paperback)
052160771X
1280417498
9781280417498
1139145916
9781139145916
0511179553
9780511179556
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9780511326172
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-192) and indexes.
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