Evidentials and relevance /
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 communicat...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©2001.
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| 叢編: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 86. |
| 在線閱讀: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=253376 |
| 總結: | 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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| 實物描述: | 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) |
| 參考書目: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027297433 9027297436 9781588110329 158811032X 9789027251053 9027251053 128216189X 9781282161894 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |