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ISBN: | 9789027297433 9027297436 9781588110329 158811032X 9789027251053 9027251053 128216189X 9781282161894 158811032X 9027251053
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Ifantidou, Elly. Evidentials and relevance. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001
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