Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics: New Developments
Edited by Agnieszka Piskorska and Manuel Padilla Cruz
Special issue of Pragmatics 33:3 (2023) v, 192 pp.
Manuel Padilla Cruz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Manuel Padilla Cruz plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
New Developments in Relevance Theory
Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz and Agnieszka Piskorska
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:2 (2021) v, 218 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions
Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 268] 2016. vi, 327 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2024 Attacking epistemic personhood on Twitter/X: A Spanish corpus-based examination Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper reports on an examination of the actions that Spanish epistemic agents perform in order to question, challenge, undermine and/or destroy the epistemic personhood of an informer on Twitter, recently been renamed ‘X’. Relying on a corpus of reactions to information about sanitary… read more
2023 Humour at the opening and closing phases of service encounters in small cafeterias and bars in Seville: Comparing the morning and evening segments The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts, Linares Bernabéu, Esther (ed.), pp. 173–198 | Chapter
In an interactive context like service encounters, humour becomes essential because of the positive feelings that it generates. These contribute to an amicable ambiance and tighten bonds of union. Hence, humour greatly impacts customer satisfaction, revisit intention and, ultimately, customer… read more
2023 Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics: New Developments, Piskorska, Agnieszka and Manuel Padilla Cruz (eds.), pp. 343–367 | Article
Ad hoc concept construction is regarded as a case of free pragmatic enrichment, so it is presented as a non-linguistically mandated process that is automatically accomplished during mutual parallel adjustment. Recent research suggests that this lexical pragmatic process may be marked and steered… read more
2023 Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics: New developments Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics: New Developments, Piskorska, Agnieszka and Manuel Padilla Cruz (eds.), pp. 313–323 | Article
2022 Ad hoc concepts, affective attitude and epistemic stance Pragmatics & Cognition 29:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
In relevance-theoretic pragmatics the lower-level or first-order explicature is a propositional form resulting from a series of inferential developments of the logical form. It amounts to the message the speaker communicates explicitly. The higher-level or second-order explicature is a… read more
2021 On the interpretation of utterances with expressive expletives New Developments in Relevance Theory, Padilla Cruz, Manuel and Agnieszka Piskorska (eds.), pp. 252–276 | Article
Expressive adjectives or expressive expletives have been argued to voice the speaker’s attitude towards the referent of the noun with which they co-occur, even though the attitude may be felt to be expressed about the referent of another sentential constituent or the state of affairs… read more
2021 The role of humorous elements in Cádiz chirigotas in creating/reinforcing a local identity: A relevance-theoretic approach Humour in Spanish Context, Timofeeva-Timofeev, Larissa (ed.), pp. 136–159 | Article
This paper adopts a relevance-theoretic perspective to analyse how chirigotas – one of the types of bands in Cádiz carnival – exploit a series of verbal and visual comic elements in order to create or reinforce local identity: (i) the names of the bands, (ii) their attire, (iii) gestures and… read more
2021 New developments in relevance theory New Developments in Relevance Theory, Padilla Cruz, Manuel and Agnieszka Piskorska (eds.), pp. 223–227 | Introduction
2020 Chapter 3. Evidential participles and epistemic vigilance Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics, Piskorska, Agnieszka (ed.), pp. 69–94 | Chapter
For communicated contents to be accepted by the audience, they have to pass the filters of epistemic vigilance mechanisms, which check the credibility and reliability of communicators and the information provided. Communicators may lack adequate evidence about the information they dispense. One of… read more
2019 Qualifying insults, offensive epithets, slurs and expressive expletives: A relevance-theoretic approach Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:2, pp. 156–181 | Article
The category of insults comprises disparaging qualifying terms, derogatory epithets, racial/ethnic slurs and participle-like expletives. All of them channel speakers’ (negative) psychological states, so they are considered expressives. Despite the enormous interest that they have aroused,… read more
2016 Three decades of relevance theory Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions, Padilla Cruz, Manuel (ed.), pp. 1–29 | Article
2016 Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions, Padilla Cruz, Manuel (ed.), pp. 307–320 | Article