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Relevance Theory
Recent developments, current challenges and future directions
How hearers arrive at intended meaning, which elements encode processing instructions in certain languages, how procedural meaning and prosody interact, how diverse types of utterances are interpreted, how epistemic vigilance mechanisms work, which linguistic elements assist those mechanisms, how a critical attitude to information and informers develops when a second language is learnt, or why some perlocutionary effects originate are some of the varied issues that have intrigued pragmatists, and relevance theorists in particular, and continue to fuel research. In this collection readers will discover new proposals based on the cognitive framework put forward by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson three decades ago. Their gripping, insightful and stimulating discussions, combined in some cases with meticulous and in-depth analyses, show the directions relevance theory has recently followed. Moreover, this collection also unveils fruitful and promising interactions with areas like morphology, prosody, language typology, interlanguage pragmatics, machine translation, or rhetoric and argumentation, and avenues for future research.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 268] 2016. vi, 327 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 October 2016
Published online on 4 October 2016
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Three decades of relevance theoryManuel Padilla Cruz | pp. 1–29
- Part I: Issues on procedural meaning and procedural analyses
- The speaker’s derivational intentionThorstein Fretheim | pp. 33–58
- Cracking the chestnut: How intonation interacts with procedural meaning in Colloquial Singapore English LahJunwen Lee and Chonghyuck Kim | pp. 59–80
- Reference assignment in pronominal argument languages: A relevance-theoretic perspectiveHelga Schröder | pp. 81–102
- Conceptual and procedural information for verb tense disambiguation: The English Simple PastCristina Grisot, Bruno Cartoni and Jacques Moeschler | pp. 103–144
- Part II: Discourse issues
- Relevance theory and contextual sources-centred analysis of irony: Current research and compatibilityFrancisco Yus | pp. 147–171
- Distinguishing rhetorical from ironical questions: A relevance-theoretic accountThierry Raeber | p. 173
- Part III: Interpretive processes
- Relevance theory, epistemic vigilance and pragmatic competenceElly Ifantidou | pp. 193–238
- Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilanceChristoph Unger | pp. 239–258
- Part IV: Rhetorical and perlocutionary effects of communication
- Rhetoric and cognition: Pragmatic constraints on argument processingSteve Oswald | pp. 261–285
- Perlocutionary effects and relevance theoryAgnieszka Piskorska | pp. 287–305
- Conclusion
- Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmaticsManuel Padilla Cruz | pp. 307–320
- Contributors | pp. 321–323
- Index | pp. 325–327
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