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Publication details [#19446]
Noh, Eun-Ju. 2000. Metarepresentation: A relevance-theory approach. (Pragmatics and Beyond: New Series 69). John Benjamins. xii + 242 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
ISBN
90 272 5084 7
Annotation
This 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.