Relevance Theory

Recent developments, current challenges and future directions

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Manuel Padilla Cruz | University of Seville

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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.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 268] 2016. vi, 327 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.268

Table of Contents

Introduction

Three decades of relevance theory

Manuel Padilla Cruz | pp. 1–29

Part I: Issues on procedural meaning and procedural analyses

The speaker’s derivational intention

Thorstein Fretheim | pp. 33–58

Cracking the chestnut: How intonation interacts with procedural meaning in Colloquial Singapore English Lah

Junwen Lee and Chonghyuck Kim | pp. 59–80

Reference assignment in pronominal argument languages: A relevance-theoretic perspective

Helga Schröder | pp. 81–102

Conceptual and procedural information for verb tense disambiguation: The English Simple Past

Cristina Grisot, Bruno Cartoni and Jacques Moeschler | pp. 103–144

Part II: Discourse issues

Relevance theory and contextual sources-centred analysis of irony: Current research and compatibility

Francisco Yus | pp. 147–171

Distinguishing rhetorical from ironical questions: A relevance-theoretic account

Thierry Raeber | p. 173

Part III: Interpretive processes

Relevance theory, epistemic vigilance and pragmatic competence

Elly Ifantidou | pp. 193–238

Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilance

Christoph Unger | pp. 239–258

Part IV: Rhetorical and perlocutionary effects of communication

Rhetoric and cognition: Pragmatic constraints on argument processing

Steve Oswald | pp. 261–285

Perlocutionary effects and relevance theory

Agnieszka Piskorska | pp. 287–305

Conclusion

Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics

Manuel Padilla Cruz | pp. 307–320

Contributors | pp. 321–323

Index | pp. 325–327

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