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Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
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Truth-conditional semantics

Published online: 3 October 2022
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Article outline
  • 1.The Basics
  • 2.Short history and key names
  • 3.Brief comparison with other approaches to linguistic meaning
  • 4.Truth-conditional semantics and pragmatics
    • 4.1Indexicality
    • 4.2Non-truth-conditional aspects of semantics
  • References
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