附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-192) and indexes.
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Meaning and truth; 2 Non-truth conditional meaning; 3 Relevance and meaning; 4 Procedural meaning; 5 Relevance and discourse; Conclusion; Bibliography; General index; Name index.
摘要:In this new and important study of the analysis of discourse markers, Diane Blakemore argues 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.
