The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers' interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic meaning either. The theoretical argument is developed in the first part, while the second part supports it with

Books about Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

Franz d'Avis: Einleitung – Normalvorstellungen und Sprache Eva Breindl: Konnexion in argumentativen Texten. Gebrauchsunterschiede in Deutsch als L2 vs. Deutsch als L1 Holden Härtl: Normality at the boundary between word-formation and syntax Julia Kolkmann: What makes a 'default' interpretation? Considerations from English attributive possession Olav Müller-Reichau: Normalitätseffekte in Existenzsätzen des

Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies, the first of the two volumes of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, brings together twenty essays which critically examine linguistic action and explore ways in which it can be accounted for. The articles presented in this collection are all focused on “doing

Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what is implicitly communicated. Features the first sustained investigation of both the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between