In:Revisiting Sentence Adverbials and Relevance
Irina T. Pandarova
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 334] 2023
► pp. vii–viii
Published online: 27 June 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.334.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.334.toc
Table of contents
AcknowledgementsIX
Chapter 1.Introduction1
1.1Defining the scope of the present investigation1
1.2Chapter overview8
Chapter 2.Relevance theory13
2.1Introduction13
2.2Main principles of relevance theory14
2.2.1Relevance and cognition14
2.2.2Relevance and ostensive-inferential communication17
2.2.3Manifestness, mutual manifestness and context19
2.3The relevance-theoretic model of verbal communication28
2.3.1Pragmatic processes in the development of explicatures31
2.3.1.1Saturation and free enrichment33
2.3.1.2Disambiguation35
2.3.1.3Ad hoc concept construction36
2.3.2Higher-level explicatures41
2.3.3Implicatures49
2.4Conclusion53
Chapter 3.Sentence adverbials in relevance theory55
3.1Introduction55
3.2Sentence adverbials and truth conditions58
3.3Sentence adverbials and explicatures64
3.4Interpretive use and epistemic strength67
3.5The double-utterance/speech-act hypothesis77
3.6Conclusion84
Chapter 4.An alternative relevance-theoretic account of attitudinal,
evidential, hearsay and epistemic adverbials87
4.1Introduction87
4.2Preliminaries88
4.3Sentence adverbials and truth conditions again90
4.4A new relevance-theoretic account107
4.4.1Adverbial semantics and metarepresentation108
4.4.2The communicative and illocutionary status of Adv(P)113
4.4.3The communicative and illocutionary status of P124
4.5Conclusion130
Chapter 5.Adverbial syntax and (non-)truth-conditionality132
5.1Introduction132
5.2Syntax and truth-conditionality132
5.3Syntax and non-truth-conditionality140
5.4What structure are syntactically parenthetical adverbials part
of?149
5.5Conclusion152
Chapter 6.Syntax and beyond: Explaining (non-)truth-conditional interpretations153
6.1Introduction153
6.2Non-truth-conditionality despite syntactic integration?155
6.3The pragmatics of syntactic parentheticality166
6.4Sentence adverbials and information structure175
6.4.1Introducing pointhood and at-issueness178
6.4.2Evidential, hearsay and epistemic adverbials191
6.4.2.1Way of being non-at-issue191
6.4.2.1.1Truth-conditional readings with an evidential
function192
6.4.2.1.2Non-truth-conditional readings195
6.4.2.1.3A comparison201
6.4.2.2Ways of being at-issue207
6.4.3Attitudinal adverbials210
6.4.4Summary and discussion218
6.5Bringing it all together: Factors affecting (non-)truth-conditionality222
Chapter 7.Conclusion226
Bibliography233
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