Expressives and Expressivity

This paper considers the questions of translatability and expressive power. It is argued that truthconditional content is always translatable, and does not produce differences in expressive power. Most nontruth- conditional content—presupposition, ‘side effects’ such as anaphora, and conventional im...

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Published in:Open Linguistics
Main Author: McCready Eric
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2014-10-01
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2014.1.issue-1/opli-2014-0004/opli-2014-0004.xml?format=INT