Deirdre Wilson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Deirdre Wilson is involved.

Journal

Pragmatics & Cognition

Edited by Elly Ifantidou and Louis de Saussure

ISSN 0929-0907 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9943

Wilson, Deirdre 2022 Communication, comprehension, and interpretation Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, Colston, Herbert L., Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 143–156 | Chapter

Ray Gibbs has argued that three features of figurative utterance interpretation make it hard to envisage a unitary pragmatic theory, with a set of dedicated principles or mechanisms linked to “some specialized ‘pragmatics’ part of the mind”. First, a given figurative utterance may be interpreted… read more

Wilson, Deirdre and Patricia Kolaiti 2017 Chapter 7. Lexical pragmatics and implicit communication Implicitness: From lexis to discourse, Cap, Piotr and Marta Dynel (eds.), pp. 147–176 | Chapter

In this paper, we consider what is implicitly communicated when the linguistically-specified (encoded) meaning of a word or phrase is modified in use. Well-studied examples of such modification include lexical narrowing, approximation and metaphorical extension. A striking feature of much… read more

Sperber, Dan and Deirdre Wilson 1998 Irony and relevance: A reply to Seto, Hamamoto and Yamanashi Relevance Theory: Applications and implications, Carston, Robyn and Seiji Uchida (eds.), pp. 283–294 | Article

Wilson, Deirdre and Dan Sperber 1998 Pragmatics and time Relevance Theory: Applications and implications, Carston, Robyn and Seiji Uchida (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article