Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521640077)

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, Blakemore Diane
ISBN-10: 0521640075
ISBN-13: 9780521640077
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2002
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d