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Publication details [#26668]

Goatly, Andrew. 1994. Register and the redemption of relevance theory: The case of metaphor. Pragmatics 4 (2) : 139–181.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

genre | metaphor | register | relevance theory

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper proposes to combine Gricean and relevance theory with models of language use that take into account the cultural and social context, such as genre/register theory.