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Current issues in relevance theory / edited by Villy Rouchota, Andreas H. Jucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Pragmatics Conference (5th : 1996 : Mexico City, Mexico)
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 58.
- Pragmatics & beyond., 0922-842X ; new ser. 58
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Pragmatics.
- Relevance.
- Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Relevance theory
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1998.
- Summary:
- The eleven original papers collected in this volume address themselves to some of the central issues in the relevance theoretic research programme since the 1995 publication of the second edition of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance. Communication and Cognition.Several papers investigate the distinction between conceptual and procedural meaning in order to account for the semantics of discourse connectives, for the role of intonation in utterance interpretation, and for focus phenomena. Other papers explore the role of the relevance theoretic notion of metarepresentation in utteranc
- Contents:
- CURRENT ISSUES IN RELEVANCE THEORY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Connectives, Coherence and Relevance; Because and although: A Case of Duality?; Conceptual and Procedural Encoding: Cause-consequence Conjunctive Particles in Japanese; Interface Economy and Focus; A Relevance-theoretic Account of the PropertyPredication Restriction; Intonation and Procedural Encoding:The Case of Spanish Interrogatives; Intonation and the Procedural Encoding of AttributedThoughts: The Case of Norwegian NegativeInterrogatives
- Modality and Semantic UnderdeterminacyA Relevance-theoretic Account of MetarepresentativeUses in Conditionals; Indirect Echoes and Verbal Humour; What Is Phatic Communication?; Index
- Notes:
- Papers, most of which were first delivered at two panels in the 5th International Pragmatics Conference organized by the IPrA, held July 1996 in Mexico City.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-22194-2
- 9786613221940
- 90-272-8257-9
- OCLC:
- 746926639
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