In:Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions
Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 268] 2016
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 20 October 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.268.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction
Three decades of relevance theory
Part I: Issues on procedural meaning and procedural analyses
The speaker’s derivational intention
Cracking the chestnut: How intonation interacts with procedural meaning in Colloquial Singapore English Lah
Reference assignment in pronominal argument languages: A relevance-theoretic perspective
Conceptual and procedural information for verb tense disambiguation: The English Simple Past
Part II: Discourse issues
Relevance theory and contextual sources-centred analysis of irony: Current research and compatibility
Part III: Interpretive processes
Relevance theory, epistemic vigilance and pragmatic competence
Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilance
Part IV: Rhetorical and perlocutionary effects of communication
Rhetoric and cognition: Pragmatic constraints on argument processing
Perlocutionary effects and relevance theory
Conclusion
Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics
Contributors
Index
