Kate Scott
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kate Scott is involved.
2021 Memes as multimodal metaphors: A relevance theory analysis New Developments in Relevance Theory, Padilla Cruz, Manuel and Agnieszka Piskorska (eds.), pp. 277–298 | Article
In this article I analyse object labelling image macro internet memes as multimodal metaphors, taking the Distracted Boyfriend meme as a case study. Object labelling memes are multimodal texts in which users add labels to a stock photograph to convey messages that are often humorous or satirical… read more
2021 Contrastive stress in English: Meaning, expectations and ostension Beyond Meaning, Ifantidou, Elly, Louis de Saussure and Tim Wharton (eds.), pp. 29–42 | Chapter
In this chapter I consider where contrastive stress fits within the relevance-theoretic model of utterance interpretation. In particular, I focus on contrastive stress as a cue to ostension which layers on top of the ostensive act of producing an utterance and which guides inferential processes.… read more
2020 Chapter 6. When
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STANDS OUT, Nothing Does: Typography, expectations and procedures Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics, Piskorska, Agnieszka (ed.), pp. 167–192 | Chapter
Writers often use typographical features such as capitalization, boldface or underlining to draw attention to particular words or phrases in a written text. In this article we use ideas from the relevance-theoretic pragmatic framework to discuss how use of typographical features may convey… read more
2019 Chapter 5. Misleading and relevance in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Pragmatics and Literature, Chapman, Siobhan and Billy Clark (eds.), pp. 93–114 | Chapter