Elly Ifantidou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elly Ifantidou is involved.
Journals
ISSN 1018-2101 | E‑ISSN 2406‑4238
Pragmatics & Cognition
Edited by Elly Ifantidou and Louis de Saussure
ISSN 0929-0907 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9943
Book series
Titles
Beyond Meaning
Edited by Elly Ifantidou, Louis de Saussure and Tim Wharton
Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones. This has left a range of important questions unanswered. How might we account for… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 324] 2021. vi, 200 pp.
Pragmatic Competence and Relevance
Elly Ifantidou
This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly, pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 245] 2014. x, 228 pp.
Evidentials and Relevance
Elly Ifantidou
This book uses Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory to show how evidential expressions can be analysed in a unified semantic/pragmatic framework. The first part surveys general linguistic work on evidentials, presents speech-act theory and examines Grice’s theory of meaning and communication with… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 86] 2001. xii, 225 pp.
2023 Mirative evidentials, relevance and non‑propositional meaning Pragmatics & Cognition 30:1, pp. 59–91 | Article
In this study, we are addressing the call for further research (Aikhenvald 2015) into how languages, in our case Modern Greek, mark the unexpected. Our first research question is: Can we identify a class of mirative evidential markers in Modern Greek? The expected answer is that we can, if we… read more
2021 Metaphor comprehension: Meaning and beyond Beyond Meaning, Ifantidou, Elly, Louis de Saussure and Tim Wharton (eds.), pp. 61–76 | Chapter
Preliminary evidence on non-propositional effects as indispensable to the informational content of metaphorical utterances is provided in Ifantidou (2019), Ifantidou and Hatzidaki (2019). The idea put forward was that the aesthetic apprehension of linguistic metaphors extends to enriching… read more
2021 Metaphor and mental shortcuts: The role of non-propositional effects New Developments in Relevance Theory, Padilla Cruz, Manuel and Agnieszka Piskorska (eds.), pp. 299–320 | Article
Cognitive-pragmatic approaches to how metaphors are understood view the activation of perceptual or motor effects as inferred (Steinhart 2001; Bergen 2005; Wilson and Carston 2006; Carston 2010; Gibbs and de Macedo 2010; Wilson and Carston 2019). Crucially, inferences elicit conceptual… read more
2016 Relevance theory, epistemic vigilance and pragmatic competence Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions, Padilla Cruz, Manuel (ed.), pp. 193–238 | Article
The study evaluates pragmatic competence in an academic context under different conditions of treatment. Control and experimental groups are used to assess the effects of intervention and language proficiency on developing pragmatic competence. Using the relevance-theoretic framework (Sperber and… read more
2009 Evidentials and metarepresentation in early child language Evidentiality in language and cognition, Ekberg, Lena and Carita Paradis (eds.), pp. 89–122 | Article
This paper examines the developmental relation of the use and understanding of Modern Greek evidential lexical items with varying degrees of metarepresentational ability. Drawing on early natural language production of two 3;6–5;10-year-olds, the paper shows that children’s use of evidentials… read more
2005 Evidential particles and mind-reading Pragmatics & Cognition 13:2, pp. 253–295 | Article
The paper investigates the acquisition of the semantics/pragmatics of two Modern Greek evidential markers taha (‘supposedly’) and dithen (‘as if’, ‘so-called’) and possible correlations with children’s mind-reading abilities. Between (a) an evidential–ironical interpretation and (b) a pretence… read more
2005 Pragmatics, cognition and asymmetrically acquired evidentials Pragmatics 15:4, pp. 369–394 | Article
This paper examines the development of a variety of evidential lexical items in Modern Greek from a longitudinal perspective involving 4;6 – 11;7 year olds. The main question to be addressed concerns parallel or asynchronous order of acquisition: Does the ability to use evidentials emerge for all… read more
2000 Procedural encoding of explicatures by the Modern Greek particle taha Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude, Andersen, Gisle and Thorstein Fretheim (eds.), pp. 119–144 | Article