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Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers

By Diane Blakemore

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521640075, 9780521640077, 9780511066177
LCC
P302.35 .B58 2004
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
955 kB (977618 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 99
Pages
210\210
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
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Description

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. Diane Blakemore asserts 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.

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