Evidentials and relevance / Elly Ifantidou.

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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Main Author: Ifantidou, Elly
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 86.
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