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Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions
Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 268] 2016
► pp. 307–320

Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics

| University of Seville
Published online: 20 October 2016
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.268.12cru
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