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
2024 Creative metaphors and non-propositional effects: An experiment Pragmatics 34:4, pp. 473–500 | 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
2024 Examining teachers’ rhetorical choices: Disagreement styles in teacher-student interactions Language and Dialogue 14:3, pp. 428–451 | Article
This study examines the role of disaffiliative reactions, specifically disagreement, in teacher-student interactions. Disagreement is often seen as confrontational and disruptive, but this research investigates whether it is a dispreferred act in these interactions. By analyzing teacher-student… 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
The pragmatics of critical thinking: The case of adventure games Internet Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
The notion of critical thinking (CT) has attracted intensive research interest over the years in a number of scientific fields, i.e., education, psychology, logic, rhetoric, to mention but a few. However, due to its multidirectional orientation, it has proven hard to pin down. More recently, it… read more