Seiji Uchida

List of John Benjamins publications in which Seiji Uchida is involved.

Title

Relevance Theory: Applications and implications

Edited by Robyn Carston and Seiji Uchida

This collection of papers arises from a meeting of relevance theorists held in Osaka, May 29-30, 1993. Speakers at the conference included both of the originators of the theory, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, the editors of this volume and several other Japanese linguists and pragmatists, all of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 37] 1998. x, 300 pp.

Articles

Uchida, Seiji 2023 Metarepresentational phenomena in Japanese and English: Implications for comparative linguistics Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics: New Developments, Piskorska, Agnieszka and Manuel Padilla Cruz (eds.), pp. 436–459 | Article

Contrastive studies of languages usually focus on differences in lexical items, syntactic structures, semantic expressions, collocations, and so on. In the present paper we take a cognitive pragmatic approach, assuming that metarepresentation in the sense of Sperber (2000) and Wilson (2000)… read more

Uchida, Seiji 2020 Chapter 10. Another look at “Cat in the rain”: A cognitive pragmatic approach to text analysis Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics, Piskorska, Agnieszka (ed.), pp. 291–308 | Chapter

Hemingway’s “Cat in the rain” has been discussed from various viewpoints, both by literary critics and by linguists. Among the points in dispute is the issue of whether the cat the American wife saw under the table in the rain was identical with the big tortoise-shell cat introduced in the final… read more

Uchida, Seiji 1998 Text and relevance Relevance Theory: Applications and implications, Carston, Robyn and Seiji Uchida (eds.), pp. 161–178 | Article