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Publication details [#61339]

Ariel, Mira. 2016. What's a distinct or alternative? Journal of Pragmatics 103 : 1–14.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

alternative | contextual adjustability | explicature | pragmatics | relevance theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study depends upon the relevance-theoretic notion of contextual adjustment (Carston, 2002), to argue that pragmatics rules the irregular use of the Distinctness constraint.