Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521607711)

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.

Author: Diane Blakemore
ISBN-10: 052160771X
ISBN-13: 9780521607711
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/19/2004
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d