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Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

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  • © 2005

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  1. Corinne Iten
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Linguistic Meaning and Truth Conditions

    • Corinne Iten
    Pages 1-27

  3. Approaches to ‘Non-Truth-Conditional’ Meaning

    • Corinne Iten
    Pages 28-61

  4. Relevance Theory and ‘Non-Truth-Conditional’ Meaning

    • Corinne Iten
    Pages 62-105

  5. Denial, Contrast and Correction: The Meaning of but

    • Corinne Iten
    Pages 106-157

  6. Concession and Denial: The Meaning of although

    • Corinne Iten
    Pages 158-188

  7. Even and even if

    • Corinne Iten
    Pages 189-233

  8. Conclusion

    • Corinne Iten
    Pages 234-238

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 239-265
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The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers' interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic meaning either. The theoretical argument is developed in the first part, while the second part supports it with cognitive relevance-theoretic, rather than truth-based, analyses of the 'concessive' expressions but, although and even if .

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CORINNE ITEN completed her PhD at University College London. She has since held post-doctoral positions at UCL and Carleton University, Ottawa.

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