Deirdre Wilson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Deirdre Wilson plays a role.

Journal

Wilson, Deirdre 2022 Communication, comprehension, and interpretationDynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, Colston, Herbert L., Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 143–156 | Chapter
Ray Gibbs has argued that three features of figurative utterance interpretation make it hard to envisage a unitary pragmatic theory, with a set of dedicated principles or mechanisms linked to “some specialized ‘pragmatics’ part of the mind”. First, a given figurative utterance may be interpreted… read more
Wilson, Deirdre and Patricia Kolaiti 2017 Chapter 7. Lexical pragmatics and implicit communicationImplicitness: From lexis to discourse, Cap, Piotr and Marta Dynel (eds.), pp. 147–176 | Chapter
In this paper, we consider what is implicitly communicated when the linguistically-specified (encoded) meaning of a word or phrase is modified in use. Well-studied examples of such modification include lexical narrowing, approximation and metaphorical extension. A striking feature of much… read more
Sperber, Dan and Deirdre Wilson 1998 Irony and relevance: A reply to Seto, Hamamoto and YamanashiRelevance Theory: Applications and implications, Carston, Robyn and Seiji Uchida (eds.), pp. 283–294 | Article
Wilson, Deirdre and Dan Sperber 1998 Pragmatics and timeRelevance Theory: Applications and implications, Carston, Robyn and Seiji Uchida (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article