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Overview"The metarepresentational ability - the ability to construct mental and public representations of other representations - has received much attention in recent work in philosophy and psychology. This is an exploration of the role of metarepresentation in verbal communication from a relevance-theoretic point of view. It looks in detail at four varieties of ""metalinguistic"" utterance - quotation, metalinguistic negation, echo questions and metarepresentational conditionals, and argues for a unified approach. Although these ""metalinguistic"" utterances have been the focus of considerable attention in philosophy, linguistics and literary theory, this work treats them as special cases of a more general cognitive phenomenon: the phenomenon of metarepresentation. Two main results emerge: first, that pragmatic enrichment plays a major role in the interpretation of ""metalinguistic"" utterances; and second, that non-propositional elements - such as phonetic representations, images and gestures - may be incorporated into metarepresentations. The implications of these results for semantics and pragmatics are explored." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eun-Ju Noh (University College London)Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 69 Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.50cm Weight: 0.460kg ISBN: 9789027250841ISBN 10: 9027250847 Pages: 242 Publication Date: 21 December 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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