Table of contents
AcknowledgementsIX
Chapter 1.Introduction1
1.1Defining the scope of the present investigation1
1.2Chapter overview8
Chapter 2.Relevance theory13
2.1Introduction13
2.2Main principles of relevance theory14
2.2.1Relevance and cognition14
2.2.2Relevance and ostensive-inferential communication17
2.2.3Manifestness, mutual manifestness and context19
2.3The relevance-theoretic model of verbal communication28
2.3.1Pragmatic processes in the development of explicatures31
2.3.1.1Saturation and free enrichment33
2.3.1.2Disambiguation35
2.3.1.3Ad hoc concept construction36
2.3.2Higher-level explicatures41
2.3.3Implicatures49
2.4Conclusion53
Chapter 3.Sentence adverbials in relevance theory55
3.1Introduction55
3.2Sentence adverbials and truth conditions58
3.3Sentence adverbials and explicatures64
3.4Interpretive use and epistemic strength67
3.5The double-utterance/speech-act hypothesis77
3.6Conclusion84
Chapter 4.An alternative relevance-theoretic account of attitudinal,
evidential, hearsay and epistemic adverbials87
4.1Introduction87
4.2Preliminaries88
4.3Sentence adverbials and truth conditions again90
4.4A new relevance-theoretic account107
4.4.1Adverbial semantics and metarepresentation108
4.4.2The communicative and illocutionary status of Adv(P)113
4.4.3The communicative and illocutionary status of P124
4.5Conclusion130
Chapter 5.Adverbial syntax and (non-)truth-conditionality132
5.1Introduction132
5.2Syntax and truth-conditionality132
5.3Syntax and non-truth-conditionality140
5.4What structure are syntactically parenthetical adverbials part
of?149
5.5Conclusion152
Chapter 6.Syntax and beyond: Explaining (non-)truth-conditional interpretations153
6.1Introduction153
6.2Non-truth-conditionality despite syntactic integration?155
6.3The pragmatics of syntactic parentheticality166
6.4Sentence adverbials and information structure175
6.4.1Introducing pointhood and at-issueness178
6.4.2Evidential, hearsay and epistemic adverbials191
6.4.2.1Way of being non-at-issue191
6.4.2.1.1Truth-conditional readings with an evidential
function192
6.4.2.1.2Non-truth-conditional readings195
6.4.2.1.3A comparison201
6.4.2.2Ways of being at-issue207
6.4.3Attitudinal adverbials210
6.4.4Summary and discussion218
6.5Bringing it all together: Factors affecting (non-)truth-conditionality222
Chapter 7.Conclusion226
Bibliography233
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