Causality and Connectives: From Grice to relevance
Valandis Bardzokas
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 216] 2012. xii, 206 pp.
Valandis Bardzokas
List of John Benjamins publications for which Valandis Bardzokas plays a role.
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Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
Articles
2023 Creative metaphors and non-propositional effects: An experiment Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Over the last decade there has been growing relevance-theoretic interest in the interpretation of creative metaphors. Much of this interest has focused on non-propositional aspects of interpretation: mental image effects/emotive effects. Central to this enquiry is the following question: are… read more
2019 Poly-procedural meaning and rhetoric: The case of afu in Modern Greek Pragmatics & Cognition 26:2/3, pp. 215–238 | Article
The current paper aims to explore the meaning of one of the most elusive discourse markers in Modern Greek rhetorical discourse: afu. To address the challenge of a thorough and parsimonious account, the relevance-theoretic model of meaning analysis is deployed. The analysis undertaken ultimately… read more