Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

by Xiaofei Wang

In the past decades, quotation theories have developed roughly along three lines--quotation types, meaning effects, and theoretical orientations toward the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Currently, whether the quoted expression is truth-conditionally relevant to the quotational sentence, and if there is a truth-conditional impact, whether it is generated via semantic or pragmatic processes, have become the central concerns of quotation studies.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367593491
• ISBN13: 9780367593490
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"