Tim Wharton

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Tim Wharton is involved.

Journal

Edited by Elly Ifantidou and Louis de Saussure

ISSN 0929-0907 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9943

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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.

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Cornell, Louis and Tim Wharton 2021 Before meaning: Creature construction, sea-sponges, lizards and Humean projection Beyond Meaning, Ifantidou, Elly, Louis de Saussure and Tim Wharton (eds.), pp. 177–198 | Chapter

This chapter retraces Grice’s thought experiment on ‘creature construction’ (Grice 1975a), which attempts to show how complex psychological processes can be shown to emerge from less complex behaviours. Beginning with simple organisms, Grice’s experiment explores examines how an organism’s… read more

Wharton, Tim 2021 Relevance: Communication and cognition and…? New Developments in Relevance Theory, Padilla Cruz, Manuel and Agnieszka Piskorska (eds.), pp. 321–346 | Article

Deirdre Wilson (2018) provides a reflective overview of a volume devoted to the historic application of relevance-theoretic ideas to literary studies. She maintains a view argued elsewhere that the putative non-propositional nature of (among other things) literary effects are an illusion, a view… read more

Wharton, Tim 2009 Review of Dessalles (): Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language Interaction Studies 10:1, pp. 101–105 | Review

Wharton, Tim 2003 Interjections, language, and the ‘showing/saying’ continuum Pragmatics & Cognition 11:1, pp. 39–91 | Article

Historically, interjections have been treated in two different ways: as part of language, or as non-words signifying feelings or states of mind. In this paper, I assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of two contemporary approaches that reflect the historical dichotomy, and suggest a new… read more