Relevance theory : recent developments, current challenges and future directions /

Relevance theory : recent developments, current challenges and future directions /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016] ©2016
Description:	vi, 327 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0922-842X ; volume 268 Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 268.
Subject:	Relevance. Pragmatics. Inference. Cognition. Cognition. Inference. Pragmatics. Relevance.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10951655

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Other authors / contributors:	Padilla Cruz, Manuel editor.
ISBN:	9789027256737 902725673X 9789027266484
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	How hearers arrive at intended meaning, which elements encode processing instructions in certain languages, how procedural meaning and prosody interact, how diverse types of utterances are interpreted, how epistemic vigilance mechanisms work, which linguistic elements assist those mechanisms, how a critical attitude to information and informers develops when a second language is learnt, or why some perlocutionary effects originate are some of the varied issues that have intrigued pragmatists, and relevance theorists in particular, and continue to fuel research. In this collection readers will discover new proposals based on the cognitive framework put forward by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson three decades ago. Their gripping, insightful and stimulating discussions, combined in some cases with meticulous and in-depth analyses, show the directions relevance theory has recently followed. Moreover, this collection also unveils fruitful and promising interactions with areas like morphology, prosody, language typology, interlanguage pragmatics, machine translation, or rhetoric and argumentation, and avenues for future research.

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Physical Description:	vi, 327 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789027256737 902725673X 9789027266484
ISSN:	0922-842X ;