Many linguists and philosophers of language explain linguistic meaning in terms of truth conditions. This  book focuses on the meanings of  expressions that escape such truth-conditional treatment, in particular  the concessives: but, even if, and although. Corinne Iten proposes  semantic analyses of these expressions based on the cognitive framework of relevance theory. A thoroughly cognitive approach to linguistic meaning is presented in which linguistic forms are seen as mapping onto mental entities, rather than individuals and properties in the real world. Researchers and advanced students in pragmatics will find this account lucid, clear and accessible.

Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance: The Case of Concessives (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Languages and Cognition) PDF

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