| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 225 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond,
0922-842X ;
new ser., v. 86
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 86.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Evidentials and Relevance; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; For my children; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Speech-act theory; Chapter 3: Grice and communication; Chapter 4: Relevance theory; Chapter 5: Sentence adverbials; Chapter 6: Parentheticals; Chapter 7: Evidential particles; Chapter 8: Conclusions; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index; The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Semantics.
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Semantics. |
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Evidentials (Linguistics)
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Evidentials (Linguistics) |
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatics. |
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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Speech acts (Linguistics) |
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Relevance.
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Relevance. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ifantidou, Elly. Evidentials and relevance. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001 (DLC) 2001035507 |
| ISBN |
9789027297433 (electronic book) |
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9027297436 (electronic book) |
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9781588110329 (US ; hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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158811032X (US ; hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9789027251053 (Eur.) |
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9027251053 (Eur.) |
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128216189X |
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9781282161894 |
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158811032X (US ; hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9027251053 (Eur.) |
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