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Relevance theory : applications and implications / edited by Robyn Carston, Seiji Uchida.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 37.
- Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., 37
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relevance--Congresses.
- Relevance.
- Pragmatics--Congresses.
- Pragmatics.
- Semantics--Congresses.
- Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of papers arises from a meeting of relevance theorists held in Osaka, May 29-30, 1993. Speakers at the conference included both of the originators of the theory, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, the editors of this volume and several other Japanese linguists and pragmatists, all of whose work is included.The full breadth and richness of relevance theory is represented here, both in its applications to problems of utterance interpretation, that fall squarely within the domain of pragmatics, and its implications for linguistic semantics. Several papers investigate and assess
- Contents:
- Pragmatics and time / Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber
- The Japanese adverbial yahari or yappari / Keiko Tanaka
- A relevance-based analysis of hearsay particles : with special reference to Japanese sentence-final particle tte / Reiko Itani
- Intonation and relevance / Kunihiko Imai
- Metaphor and metonymy / Nam Sun Song
- Procedural semantics and metalinguistic negation / Akiko Yoshimura
- Assessing a scenario-based account of bridging reference assignment / Tomoko Matsui
- Text and relevance / Seiji Uchida
- Informativeness, relevance, and scalar implicature / Robyn Carston
- On non-echoic irony / Ken-Ichi Seto
- Irony from a cognitive perspective / Hideki Hamamoto
- Some issues in the treatment of irony and related tropes / Masa-Aki Yamanashi
- Irony and relevance : a reply to Seto, Hamamoto, and Yamanashi / Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson.
- Notes:
- Based on papers presented at a conference which was held May 29-30, 1993, Osaka, Japan.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613092564
- 90-272-8556-X
- 1-283-09256-5
- OCLC:
- 717567007
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