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Metarepresentation
A relevance-theory approach
Eun-Ju Noh’s book provides a close look at linguistic metarepresentation showing how beliefs, utterances, and propositions are represented and how they are inferred. The author explains how metarepresentation works in various types of uses: quotations, negation, echo questions, and conditionals in terms of truth conditions and pragmatic enrichment. Ample examples are provided from the English language.
The relevance-theory approach gives room for extralinguistic parameters to be considered, and suggestions are made for further research in cross-linguistic studies and metarepresentation.
The relevance-theory approach gives room for extralinguistic parameters to be considered, and suggestions are made for further research in cross-linguistic studies and metarepresentation.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 69] 2000. xii, 242 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. xi–xii
- Introduction: Metarepresentation in communication | pp. 1–6
- 1. Analyses of quotation | pp. 7–60
- 2. Relevance theory and metarepresentational use | pp. 61–102
- 3. Metalinguistic negation | pp. 103–144
- 4. Echo questions | pp. 145–172
- 5. Metarepresentational uses in conditionals | pp. 173–210
- Epilogue | pp. 211–214
- Notes | pp. 215–220
- Index | pp. 237–242
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