Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction: Metarepresentation in communication; 3. 1. Analyses of quotation; 4. 2. Relevance theory and metarepresentational use; 5. 3. Metalinguistic negation; 6. 4. Echo questions; 7. 5. Metarepresentational uses in conditionals; 8. Epilogue; 9. Notes; 10. References; 11. Index
