Relevance and Linguistic Meaning

副标题: the semantics and pragmatics of discourse markers

ISBN: 9780521640077

出版社: Cambridge University Press

出版年: 2002

页数: 200

定价: $ 145.77

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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. In this new and important study, Diane Blakemore argues 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.