| Author | : Villy Rouchota |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 1998-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027250723 |
Many of the papers included in this volume were first presented at the 5th International Pragmatics Conference held in July 1996 in Me×ico City. Topics covered include: the relevance theoretic approach to lingustic semantics; and the application of theory to the study of sociolinguistic theory.
| Author | : Agnieszka Piskorska |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2013-01-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1443845760 |
The present volume covers a variety of topics which are at the centre of interest in pragmatic research: understanding and believing, reference, politeness, communication problems, stylistics, metaphor, and humour. Next to innovative theoretical proposals, there are interesting analyses and discussions.
| Author | : Kate Scott |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2019-07-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108418635 |
Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.
| Author | : Laurence Horn |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 864 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0470756713 |
The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field, including an overview of the foundations of pragmatic theory and a detailed examination of the rich and varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. Provides authoritative and accessible introduction to the field and a detailed examination of the varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Includes extensive bibliography that serves as a research tool for those working in pragmatics and allied fields in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. Valuable resource for both students and professional researchers investigating the properties of meaning, reference, and context in natural language.
| Author | : Billy Clark |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 419 |
| Release | : 2013-07-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0521878209 |
The definitive introduction to relevance theory, starting from the basics and covering all its key ideas.
| Author | : Elly Ifantidou |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2021-11-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027259593 |
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 the communication of non-propositional phenomena such as moods, emotions and impressions? What type of cognitive response do these phenomena trigger, if not conceptual or propositional? Do creative metaphors and unknown words in second languages and other ‘pointers’ to ‘conceptual regions’ communicate concepts learned from language alone? How might the descriptive ineffability of interjections, free indirect speech etc. be accommodated within a theory of communication? What of those working on the aesthetics of artworks, music and literature? What can evolution tell us about ineffability? The papers in this volume address these fascinating questions head-on. They represent a range of different attempts to answer them and, in so doing, allow us to pose exciting new questions. The aim, to bring the ineffable firmly within the grasp of theoretical pragmatics.
| Author | : Robyn Carston |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 1998-03-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902728556X |
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 whose work is included. The full breadth and richness of relevance theory is represented here, both in its applications to problems of utterance interpretation, that fall squarely within the domain of pragmatics, and its implications for linguistic semantics. Several papers investigate and assess the theory’s account of figurative uses of language, such as irony, metaphor and metonymy. Other central pragmatic issues include a relevance-driven account of generalized implicature, the role of bridging implicatures in reference assignment, the way in which different intonation patterns contribute to the relevance of an utterance and the application of the theory to literary texts. The recently developed semantic distinction between conceptually and procedurally encoded meaning, motivated by relevance-theoretic considerations, is employed in new accounts of several Japanese particles and in a fresh perspective on the phenomenon of metalinguistic negation. The volume comes with a comprehensive glossary of relevance-theoretic terms.
| Author | : Villy Rouchota |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
| ISBN | : 9781556198212 |
The eleven original papers collected in this volume address themselves to some of the central issues in the relevance theoretic research programme since the 1995 publication of the second edition of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance. Communication and Cognition. Several papers investigate the distinction between conceptual and procedural meaning in order to account for the semantics of discourse connectives, for the role of intonation in utterance interpretation, and for focus phenomena. Other papers explore the role of the relevance theoretic notion of metarepresentation in utterance interpretation and prove its usefulness in the study of both linguistic topics such as epistemic modality and conditional clauses, and in the reanalysis of literary issues such as verbal humour. Some of the central pragmatic issues dealt with are the interpretation of semantically underdetermined linguistic forms, the role and nature of pragmatic inference, the distinction between truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional meaning and the separation between explicitly and implicitly communicated meaning. The theory's application to sociolinguistic topics is assessed and developed in an inspired account of phatic communication; and the theory's usefulness in accounting for certain types of "grammatical" constraints is explored in relation to certain restrictions in the interpretation of indefinite descriptions.
| Author | : Manuel Padilla Cruz |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2016-10-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027266484 |
How hearers arrive at intended meaning, which elements encode processing instructions in certain languages, how procedural meaning and prosody interact, how diverse types of utterances are interpreted, how epistemic vigilance mechanisms work, which linguistic elements assist those mechanisms, how a critical attitude to information and informers develops when a second language is learnt, or why some perlocutionary effects originate are some of the varied issues that have intrigued pragmatists, and relevance theorists in particular, and continue to fuel research. In this collection readers will discover new proposals based on the cognitive framework put forward by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson three decades ago. Their gripping, insightful and stimulating discussions, combined in some cases with meticulous and in-depth analyses, show the directions relevance theory has recently followed. Moreover, this collection also unveils fruitful and promising interactions with areas like morphology, prosody, language typology, interlanguage pragmatics, machine translation, or rhetoric and argumentation, and avenues for future research.
