Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9789027297433
9027297436
9781588110329
158811032X
9789027251053
9027251053
128216189X
9781282161894
158811032X
9027251053
|
|---|
| Digital file characteristics: | data file
|
|---|
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Print version record.
|
|---|
| 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
|
|---|
