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:	E-Resource 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.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Three decades of relevance theory
3. Part I: Issues on procedural meaning and procedural analyses
4. The\speaker's derivational intention
5. Cracking the chestnut
6. Reference assignment in pronominal argument languages
7. Conceptual and procedural information for verb tense disambiguation
8. Part II: Discourse issues
9. Relevance theory and contextual sources-centred analysis of irony
10. Distinguishing rhetorical from ironical questions
11. Part III: Interpretive processes
12. Relevance theory, epistemic vigilance and pragmatic competence
13. Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilance
14. Part IV: Rhetorical and perlocutionary effects of communication
15. Rhetoric and cognition
16. Perlocutionary effects and relevance theory
17. Conclusion
18. Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics
19. Contributors
20. Index