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Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics: New Developments
Edited by Agnieszka Piskorska and Manuel Padilla Cruz
[Pragmatics 33:3] 2023
► pp. 313–323

Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics

New developments

| Uniwersytet Warszawski
ORCID logo | Universidad de Sevilla
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Relevance, meaning, and understanding
  • 3.Concepts in relevance-theoretic pragmatics
  • 4.Context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics
  • 5.Conclusion
  • References
Published online: 7 March 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22064.pad
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