Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning

✍ Scribed by Daniel Gutzmann; Hans-Martin Gärtner

Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 332
Series: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface Ser.
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning offers empirical and theoretical studies of expressions whose meaning falls outside the standard realm of truth-conditional semantics. Going beyond examples of expressives, the contributions acount for the semantics and pragmatics various of use-conditional phenomena.

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