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Publication details [#52417]

Padilla Cruz, Manuel . 2009. Towards an Alternative Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Interjections. International Review of Pragmatics 1 (1) : 182–206.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextual constraint | interjection | interpretation | relevance theory

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This study proposes an alternative relevance-theoretic approach to interjections, according to which the procedures they encode would not invoke hearers to create higher-level explicatures, but to access contextual material that is required for apt interjection interpretation.