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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      September 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511486456
      9780521640077
      9780521607711
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486456
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 212 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.32kg, 212 Pages
      • Subjects:
      English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (99)
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    Subjects:
    English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (99)
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    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. They are regarded as being central to semantics because they raise problems for standard theories of meaning, and to pragmatics because they seem to play a role in the way discourse is understood. In this new and important study, Diane Blakemore argues that attempts to analyse these expressions within standard semantic frameworks raise even more problems, while their analysis as expressions that link segments of discourse has led to an unproductive and confusing exercise in classification. She concludes 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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    ‘Relevance and Linguistic Meaning raises a number of interesting and important issues … it is a well-structured and accessibly written book …’.

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