Relevance Theory
Recent developments, current challenges and future directions
Editor
| University of Seville
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
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
Introduction
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1–29
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Part I: Issues on procedural meaning and procedural analyses
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33–58
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59–80
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81–102
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103–144
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Part II: Discourse issues
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147–171
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173
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Part III: Interpretive processes
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193–238
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239–258
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Part IV: Rhetorical and perlocutionary effects of communication
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261–285
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287–305
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Conclusion
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307–320
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Contributors
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321–323
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Index
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325–327
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics