Relevance-theoretic accounts of linguistic metarepresentational uses

What is it about?

This book deals with linguistic metarepresentational uses, such as quotations, metalinguistic negation, echo questions, and given and speech-act conditionals.are made for further research in cross-linguistic studies and metarepresentation.

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Why is it important?

With ample examples fron the English language, it attempts to show that the propositions of metarepresentations are determined after pragmatic enrichment. Its relevance-theory approach gives room for extralinguistic parameters to be considered, and suggestions are made for further research in cross-linguistic studies and metarepresentation.