Linguistic Meaning (Rle Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

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Focusing on the intricacies of linguistic meaning, the work explores the significance of speech acts and their relationship to semantics and prosodic meaning. It emphasizes the importance of the co-operative principle, context, and background information in understanding meaning. Additionally, it delves into the concepts of sense and denotation, analyzing meaningful properties and meaning relations. The book concludes with a comprehensive summary of its main arguments, providing a thorough examination of the theory of linguistic meaning.