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Revisiting Sentence Adverbials and Relevance
Irina T. Pandarova
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 334] 2023
► pp. 13–54

Chapter 2
Relevance theory

Article outline
  • 2.1Introduction
  • 2.2Main principles of relevance theory
    • 2.2.1Relevance and cognition
    • 2.2.2Relevance and ostensive-inferential communication
    • 2.2.3Manifestness, mutual manifestness and context
  • 2.3The relevance-theoretic model of verbal communication
    • 2.3.1Pragmatic processes in the development of explicatures
      • 2.3.1.1Saturation and free enrichment
      • 2.3.1.2Disambiguation
      • 2.3.1.3Ad hoc concept construction
    • 2.3.2Higher-level explicatures
    • 2.3.3Implicatures
  • 2.4Conclusion
  • Notes