Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers (Ca...
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Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 99)
Book Details
- Author
- Diane Blakemore
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Semantics
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780521607711
- ISBN-10
- 052160771X
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ISBN: 052160771X
Author: Blakemore, Diane
Condition: New
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.
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Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 99)
