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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Acknowledgements Linguistic Meaning and Truth Conditions Approaches to ‘Non-Truth-Conditional’ Meaning Relevance Theory and ‘Non-Truth-Conditional’ Meaning Denial, Contrast and Correction: The Meaning of But Concession and Denial: The Meaning of Although Even and Even if Conclusion Notes References
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CORINNE ITEN completed her Ph D at University College London. She has since held post-doctoral positions at UCL and Carleton University, Ottawa.
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