Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics - 9781138090026

Taylor & Francis

Quotation and Truth-Conditional PragmaticsAuthor(s): Xiaofei Wang\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138090026, 978-1138090026\nSynopsis\nIn the past decades, quotation theories have developed roughly along three linesquotation types, meaning effects, and theoretical orientations toward the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Currently, whether the quoted expression is truth-conditionally relevant to the quotational sentence, and if there is a truth-conditional impact, whether it is generated via semantic or pragmatic processes, have become the central concerns of quotation studies.\n\nIn this book, quotation is clearly defined for the first time as a constituent embedded within yet distinctive from the quotational sentence. Also, as the first monograph to address the semantics/pragmatics boundary dispute over quotation, it argues that the semantic content of quotation amounts to its contribution to the intuitive tru.