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

Diane Blakemore

ISBN 10: 0521640075 / ISBN 13: 9780521640077

Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, 2002

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250 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521640075
• ISBN 13: 9780521640077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.48 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Diane Blakemore is Professor of Linguistics at the European Studies Research Institute and School of Languages, University of Salford. She is the author of Semantic Constraints on Relevance (1987) and Understanding Utterances (1992), as well as a range of articles in relevance theoretic pragmatics in publications including Journal of Linguistics, Lingua, Pragmatics and Cognition, and Linguistics and Philosophy.