Relevance-theoretic Lexical Pragmatics

Relevance-theoretic Lexical Pragmatics
Author: Ewa Wałaszewska
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Linguistics
ISBN: 9781443880732

This volume is one of the first books to present a comprehensive view of lexical pragmatics, describing its origins, assumptions, scope, methodology and the various approaches to it, focusing specifically on the approach offered by relevance theory. In addition to theoretical considerations, the book discusses particular linguistic expressions and pragmatic phenomena, showing how the relevance-theoretic tools may be used to explore pragmatically motivated changes to lexically encoded meanings. The most recent developments are discussed and questions are asked to indicate directions for further research within this rapidly developing field.

Applications of Relevance Theory

Applications of Relevance Theory
Author: Agnieszka Piskorska
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443891681

The collection of papers discusses various applications of Relevance Theory within several areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis. It covers an array of topics, including the treatment of figurative language, pragmatic markers and lexical pragmatics within Relevance Theory. It also discusses relevance-theoretic analyses of special kinds of discourse, such as discourse emerging from the internet or from psychotherapeutic sessions. The volume will primarily interest relevance theorists and scholars working on the subjects addressed by particular chapters.

The Handbook of Pragmatics

The Handbook of Pragmatics
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.

Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation

Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation
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.

Relevance-Theoretic Lexical Pragmatics

Relevance-Theoretic Lexical Pragmatics
Author: Ewa Wałaszewska
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015-10-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443885568

This volume is one of the first books to present a comprehensive view of lexical pragmatics, describing its origins, assumptions, scope, methodology and the various approaches to it, focusing specifically on the approach offered by relevance theory. In addition to theoretical considerations, the book discusses particular linguistic expressions and pragmatic phenomena, showing how the relevance-theoretic tools may be used to explore pragmatically motivated changes to lexically encoded meanings. The most recent developments are discussed and questions are asked to indicate directions for further research within this rapidly developing field.

Lexical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind

Lexical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind
Author: Sandrine Zufferey
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027256055

The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics. However, even though the relationship between ToM and verbal communication is now recognized, the extent, causality and full implications of this connection remain mostly to be explored. This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the interface between language, communication, and theory of mind, and puts forward an innovative proposal regarding the role of discourse connectives for this interface. The proposed analysis of connectives is tested from the perspective of their acquisition, using empirical methods such as corpus analysis and controlled experiments, thus placing the study of connectives within the emerging framework of experimental pragmatics.

Relevance Theory

Relevance Theory
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.

Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation

Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation
Author: Gisle Andersen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2001-06-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027298149

This book combines theoretical work in linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics with empirical work based on a corpus of London adolescent conversation. It makes a general contribution to the study of pragmatic markers, as it proposes an analytical model that involves notions such as subjectivity, interactional and textual capacity, and the distinction between contextual alignment/divergence. These notions are defined according to how information contained in an utterance interacts with the cognitive environment of the hearer. Moreover, the model captures the diachronic development of markers from lexical items via processes of grammaticalisation, arguing that markerhood may be viewed as a gradient phenomenon. The empirical work concerns the use of like as a marker, as well as a characteristic use of two originally interrogative forms, innit and is it, which are used as attitudinal markers throughout the inflectional paradigm, despite the fact that they contain a third person singular neuter pronoun. The author provides an in-depth analysis of these features in terms of pragmatic functions, diachronic development and sociolinguistic variation, thus adding support to the hypothesis that adolescents play an important role in language variation and change.

Poetic Effects

Poetic Effects
Author: Adrian Pilkington
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 902725091X

Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing work on stylistic effects in relevance theory. It also contributes to literary studies by proposing a new theoretical account of literariness in terms of mental representations and mental processes. The book attempts to define literariness in terms of text-internal linguistic properties, cultural codes or special purpose reading strategies, as well as suggestions that the notion of literariness should be dissolved or rejected. It challenges the accounts of language and verbal communication that underpin such positions and outlines the theory of verbal communication developed within relevance theory that supports an explanatory account of poetic effects and a new account of literariness. This is followed by a broader discussion of philosophical and psychological issues having a bearing on the question of what is expressed non-propositionally in literary communication. The discussion of emotion, qualitative experience and, more specifically, aesthetic experience provides a fuller characterisation of poetic effects and 'poetic thought'.