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

Diane Blakemore

ISBN 10: 052160771X / ISBN 13: 9780521607711

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Relevance and Linguistic Meaning | The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers | Diane Blakemore | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2004 | Cambridge University Press | EAN 9780521607711 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Relevance and Linguistic Meaning | The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052160771X
• ISBN 13: 9780521607711
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 13D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 352 grams
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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.