Metarepresentation
Author | : Eun-Ju Noh |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2000 |
ISBN-10 | : 9027250847 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789027250841 |
Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Download or read book Metarepresentation written by Eun-Ju Noh and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.