Evidentials and relevance /

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Author / Creator:Ifantidou, Elly.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 225 pages).
Language:English
Series:Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 86
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 86.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11145234
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ISBN:9789027297433
9027297436
9781588110329
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9789027251053
9027251053
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9781282161894
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Ifantidou, Elly. Evidentials and relevance. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001