Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and RelevanceThe main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker hearers' interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic meaning either. The theoretical argument is developed in the first part, while the second part supports it with cognitive relevance theoretic, rather than truth based, analyses of the 'concessive' expressions but, although and even if . Author: C. Iten