Metarepresentation

A relevance-theory approach

Eun-Ju Noh | University College London

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Eun-Ju Noh’s book provides a close look at linguistic metarepresentation showing how beliefs, utterances, and propositions are represented and how they are inferred. The author explains how metarepresentation works in various types of uses: quotations, negation, echo questions, and conditionals in terms of truth conditions and pragmatic enrichment. Ample examples are provided from the English language.
The relevance-theory approach gives room for extralinguistic parameters to be considered, and suggestions are made for further research in cross-linguistic studies and metarepresentation.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 69] 2000. xii, 242 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.69

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | p. xi

Introduction: Metarepresentation in communication | p. 1

1. Analyses of quotation | p. 7

2. Relevance theory and metarepresentational use | p. 61

3. Metalinguistic negation | p. 103

4. Echo questions | p. 145

5. Metarepresentational uses in conditionals | p. 173

Epilogue | p. 211

Notes | p. 215

Index | p. 237

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