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LINGUISTIC MEANING AND NON-TRUTH-CONDITIONALITY...

This book offers a new perspective on current semantic theory by analysing key aspects of
linguistic meaning and non-truth-conditional semantics. It applies non-truth-conditional
semantics to various areas of language and critically considers earlier approaches to the study
of semantic meaning  such as truth-conditional semantics  Speech Act theory and Gricean
conventional implicatures. The author argues that those earlier approaches to linguistic
semantics do not stand up to close scrutiny and are subject to a number of counterexamples 
indicating that they are insufficient for a comprehensive and unified account of linguistic
semantics. An alternative framework is then presented based on recent developments in the field
demonstrating that it is possible to provide a unified account of linguistic semantics by
making two fundamental distinctions between (a) conceptual and procedural meaning and (b)
explicit and implicit communication. These two distinctions  combined with the various levels
of representation available in linguistic communication  allow researchers to capture the
variety of linguistic meaning encountered in natural language. The study includes a discussion
of a number of areas within linguistic semantics  including sentence adverbials  parentheticals
discourse pragmatic connectives  discourse particles  interjections and mood indicators.

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