Relevance theory : recent developments, current challenges and future directions / edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Padilla Cruz, Manuel, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 268.

Pragmatics & beyond

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relevance.

Pragmatics.

Inference.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

vi, 327 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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.

Contents:

1 Introduction

2 Three decades of relevance theory p. 1 / Manuel Padilla Cruz

3 Part I: Issues on procedural meaning and procedural analyses

4 The speaker's derivational intention p. 33 / Thorstein Fretheim

5 Cracking the chestnut p. 59 / Junwen Lee; Chonghyuck Kim

6 Reference assignment in pronominal argument languages p. 81 / Helga Schröder

7 Conceptual and procedural information for verb tense disambiguation p. 103 / Cristina Grisot; Bruno Cartoni; Jacques Moeschler

8 Part II: Discourse issues

9 Relevance theory and contextual sources-centred analysis of irony p. 147 / Francisco Yus

10 Distinguishing rhetorical from ironical questions p. 173 / Thierry Raeber

11 Part III: Interpretive processes

12 Relevance theory, epistemic vigilance and pragmatic competence p. 193 / Elly Ifantidou

13 Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilance p. 239 / Christoph Unger

14 Part IV: Rhetorical and perlocutionary effects of communication

15 Rhetoric and cognition p. 261 / Steve Oswald

16 Perlocutionary effects and relevance theory p. 287 / Agnieszka Piskorska

17 Conclusion

18 Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics p. 307 / Manuel Padilla Cruz

19 Contributors p. 321

20 Index p. 325.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Relevance theory.

ISBN:

9789027256737

902725673X

OCLC:

951948938